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- Shlomo Avineri
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- Daniel Gordis
- Tom Gross
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- David Ignatius
- Pinchas Inbari
- Jeff Jacoby
- Efraim Karsh
- Mordechai Kedar
- Charles Krauthammer
- Emily Landau
- David Makovsky
- Aaron David Miller
- Benny Morris
- Jacques Neriah
- Marty Peretz
- Melanie Phillips
- Daniel Pipes
- Harold Rhode
- Gary Rosenblatt
- Jennifer Rubin
- David Schenkar
- Shimon Shapira
- Jonathan Spyer
- Gerald Steinberg
- Bret Stephens
- Amir Taheri
- Josh Teitelbaum
- Khaled Abu Toameh
- Jonathan Tobin
- Michael Totten
- Michael Young
- Mort Zuckerman
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- American Enterprise Institute
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- Council on Foreign Relations
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- Hudson Institute
- Institute for Contemporary Affairs
- Institute for Counter-Terrorism
- Institute for Global Jewish Affairs
- Institute for National Security Studies
- Institute for Science and Intl. Security
- Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
- Investigative Project
- Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
- RAND Corporation
- Saban Center for Middle East Policy
- Shalem Center
- Washington Institute for Near East Policy
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(Newsday) William B. Helmreich- A truly effective counter-terror strategy needs to reflect the unique personality traits that separate the terrorists from the rest of us. Last year, I spent a good deal of time speaking with religious terrorists for a forthcoming film, called "Blood and Tears," about the Middle East conflict. The religious terrorist justifies cold-blooded murder because he lives in a world populated by infidels and traitors who must be eradicated. The main agenda is to set up a theocratic state where all who disagree are eliminated. As the recent spate of beheadings emphatically demonstrates, to the enemy we are not human. Religious terrorists live in another world, with an agenda that is purely theocratic and absolute, with not a scintilla of concern for the lives of nonbelievers. In such a situation negotiation is useless, for there is nothing to negotiate about. When it come to religiously-based terror, we must reluctantly recognize that there are only two real choices here - protect ourselves and eliminate the terrorists or turn the world over to them. The writer is a professor of sociology at CUNY Graduate Center and City College.2004-07-02 00:00:00Full Article
No Sense Negotiating with Terrorists
(Newsday) William B. Helmreich- A truly effective counter-terror strategy needs to reflect the unique personality traits that separate the terrorists from the rest of us. Last year, I spent a good deal of time speaking with religious terrorists for a forthcoming film, called "Blood and Tears," about the Middle East conflict. The religious terrorist justifies cold-blooded murder because he lives in a world populated by infidels and traitors who must be eradicated. The main agenda is to set up a theocratic state where all who disagree are eliminated. As the recent spate of beheadings emphatically demonstrates, to the enemy we are not human. Religious terrorists live in another world, with an agenda that is purely theocratic and absolute, with not a scintilla of concern for the lives of nonbelievers. In such a situation negotiation is useless, for there is nothing to negotiate about. When it come to religiously-based terror, we must reluctantly recognize that there are only two real choices here - protect ourselves and eliminate the terrorists or turn the world over to them. The writer is a professor of sociology at CUNY Graduate Center and City College.2004-07-02 00:00:00Full Article
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