The terror trap: hard-line campaigns against Islamic terrorism--here or in Israel--don't merely fail as strategy. They fulfill the terrorists' stated goals.(Dispatches)
American Prospect, The, January, 2004 by Gorenberg, Gershom
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THE FOUR MEN, VETERANS OF A GRIM business, had only grim words. Former heads of the Shin Bet, the Israeli security service entrusted with righting terrorism, they gathered to tell Israel's largest newspaper that the Sharon government was failing completely in its war on terrorism.
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The problem, said Ami Ayalon, who headed the elite, secretive agency in the late 1990s, is, "We have built a strategy of immediate prevention"--of stopping the next attack--while ignoring causes. His colleagues echoed that evaluation in a mid-November joint interview. "We must, once ...
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