What is disturbing also are the bogus assumptions that pass for thinking about terrorism. Such as:
Appeasement: the biggest one of all. Europeans love appeasement. Ignore the terror, pay them off, hope for a better tomorrow. If that doesn't work, so what? If your art and literature is swelled with nihilism - and your baby cribs are collectively empty , remember that life has no meaning, anyway. Slash your military and pontificate to the rest of the world like old men on a porch, watching the world go by. Give Gaza back and things will improve. Retreat from Lebanon and things will get better. Accept blame for terror and accept Muslim victimhood and things will get better. Guess what? The more you do the above, the more effective terror tactics become! Imputing "fairness" to others: related to the above, what is "fair"? What was "fair" to Hitler? More importantly, what is "fair" to radical Muslims who see it as their God-given right to impose their religious law on you? And that "Dhimmi-hood" ( you PAY them as cursed infidels) is fair also? It is this "fairness" that causes European Muslim leaders to tell their flocks that welfare payments are owed to them, because the government is non Islamic and non believers owe them money, thereby. It is this "fairness" that causes Palestinian leaders to announce that they will target every city in Israel with rockets after Israel withdraws from the West Bank. And finally, the biggest human fallacy in social relations: Never, never, never understand that being "positive" to a spoiled child makes everything worse, Once the initial capitulation wears off. I'm sorry you're angry Mr. Hitler. If you promise to be good, we'll give you the Sudetenland? All right, all right, if you stop the tantrum , we'll let you have Czechoslovakia, too. Please be good, please, please. Treating these childish nations like adults is long overdue. Set up reasonable negotiations and don't let them weasel out of them. The two state solution In Palestine is a good start. If a Palestinian state ever emerges, it will exist purely because Israel exists. Or has Palestine not been dominated by every Passing empire across thousands of years of history?