And bombing busses will get them what?
A place in hell if there's any justice in the world.
Unfourtunately, terrorism got Gerry Adams a place in the government of Northern Ireland, it got Yitzhak Shamir and Menachem Begin the prime ministership of Israel, it got De Valera the prime ministership of Ireland, it got Arafat the Nobel peace prize (and vast amounts of money).
These are only a few examples, I'm sure if you trawl through Africa Asia and South America you will find many, many more.
Alan Dershowitz, who is a fanatical supporter of Israel , wrote a book called Why Terrorism Works. Here's a reply he gave in an interview about it:
I gave a speech the other night in front of 500 people. I asked the people how many of them favored a Palestinian state living side by side with Israel. I think every person in the audience raised their hand. Then I asked how many people favor a Kurdish state. People looked at me like I was crazy. Then I asked how many people favored an Armenian state inside of Turkey. Same thing. Then I asked how many people favor an independent Tibet? A few hands went up. How many people favor an independent Basque state? How many people favor a Chechen state? People didn't know what I was talking about. Everybody knows of the plight of the Palestinian people. And yet when you put the Palestinian situation in comparison to, say, the Kurds, the Tibetans and the Armenians, those claims are certainly no greater. In fact, they're probably considerably lower; the Tibetans have been under occupation for a far longer time period, there are many, many more of them, and they've never been offered a state. The Palestinians were offered a state in 1948 and they turned it down. They could have had a state between 1948 and 1967 and they turned it down. They were offered a state at Camp David and they turned it down.
So when you do any kind of a moral comparison, you ask yourself, why has the Palestinian cause leapfrogged over all other causes? Why has the pope met with Arafat seven times and never met with a Kurdish leader or an Armenian leader? It's a reflection of the success of Palestinian terrorism. Now, that doesn't mean that it's the only way of achieving success; my own personal view is that the Palestinians would have actually achieved a state had they engaged in civil disobedience, Martin Luther King-like. But they opted for the tactic of terrorism and for them it has worked. In the book, I quote Palestinian leaders who say that they were surprised at how well it worked.
I don't like terrorism. I wish it didn't work. But, like war, I think it does. Kill enough people, and threaten to kill more, and you often get your way.
Not always, and there are far more dead terrorists than successful terrorists, but in certain circumstances terrorism works.
If Israel was perceived in America as jack booted thugs stepping on puppies, do you think we would still veto?
The IRA was a terrorist group operating in a democracy. They were comprised of men who had the vote, full political and legal rights, and were engaged in murdering people in Americas oldest ally.
They were feted in America, their leaders invited to the Whitehouse, convicted murderers led St Patricks day parades and talked of the "oppression" they'd suffered that had led them to kill.
Now if the Irish voice in America could get that sort of support for a terrorist group against a democracy, that was also America's strongest ally to boot, I can't see the Jewish voice having much trouble with a bunch of Arabs.
Gerry Adams, leader of a terrorist group that murdered close to 2000 people, in one of his many meetings with US presidents.
