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This guy who was killed was initially given support by the Israel govt to be a counterbalance to Arafat. He later turned out be a Frankenstein.
The magnitude of the problem is not being visualised by you in the West since you have not been under actual terrorists actions daily.
Actually, all this tit for tat won't work, especially since Islam is a different kettle of fish as far as religions go.
It is clearly one of Islam's religious 'truth' that by dying for Islam one goes to Heaven. If someone believes in that, then the situation is very difficult since killing him wont make a damn difference to him or his family. If one believes that it is better to be in the next world in Heaven than living out one's life on Earth, then what we are doing is not going to be successful. One down, another surfaces and so on. Multiplication, that is the name of the game.
Walls also cannot stop anyone. Remember, the Berlin Wall?
The only way to ensure sanity in the region is get them more modern education and let them improve their standard of living. Maybe then, they might feel that living the present life on Earth fully is better than dying for an illusory rosy next life. Their mindset has to be changed and that cannot be through bullets since it is a matter of pride to die for Islam. The psychology is indeed scary.
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"Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, And eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination."
I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.
HAKUNA MATATA
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