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The Gentle Art of Negotiating with Terrorists

(Gatestone Institute) Daniel Greenfield - The first rule of negotiating with Islamic terrorists is don't. The second rule is if you do it, do it with heavy artillery. Islamic terrorists don't negotiate. They make demands in hopes of securing concessions without actually giving up anything. It is hard to find an example of a negotiation process during which the Islamic terrorists made an actual concession, followed through on it, and did not later take it back or turn right around and go back to terrorism. The most prominent counterexamples are the three decades of negotiations between Israel and Islamic terrorist groups, which initially won a round of Nobel Peace Prizes and then degenerated into an endless war during which the terrorists took back every concession they ever made, did not follow through on any of them, and used Israeli concessions to become a much worse threat. Negotiating with the Taliban, Hizbullah and Iran all had the same end result. Offering to negotiate with Islamic terrorists is a statement of weakness. Jihadists only offer to negotiate out of fear, weakness or to entrap us, and they assume we do the same thing. Nothing would ever convince them that we genuinely want to live in peace with them, or that we prefer alternatives to violence. So any time we offer to negotiate, they see it as weakness or a trick.
2024-12-05 00:00:00
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