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Originally Posted by fatboy
But most Palestinians aren't murdering Jews. We're talking about solutions to terrorism. If Israel stopped retaliating for every blown-up bus and eatery, Hamas would continue to blow-up busses and eateries. In fact, they would think they'd had a great success; they could continue to pursue their goal of every Jew dead without risking their own lives. Would the common Palestinian stop it? No, they don't have the leadership or the organization to stop it.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- With many Israelis calling for his ouster and warplanes bombing the symbols of his power, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat insisted yesterday that he will not shy away from a confrontation with the militant Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups to revive what hope remains for peace in the region.
In an interview with The Associated Press in his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Arafat said the Palestinian police have arrested 17 key militants out of a list of 33 presented to him by American officials, and said he will continue pursuing the rest despite the continuing Israeli air strikes.
Asked whether he would be prepared to face down resistance by the militants and their growing legions of supporters, Arafat smiled and said: "You are speaking with Yasser Arafat. I know how to do it. I know how to do it."
http://www.s-t.com/daily/12-01/12-09-01/b04wn112.htm
As we both know, this iniciative was not terribly successful - becuase terrorist organizations are widely supported and because trying to cripple them from within is likely to cause a civil war. But there is a will to confront them, given the right circumstances.
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How would we ever act against them? Assassinate them? No way - we'll be accused of going anywhere, anytime, and taking the law into our own hands. Arrest them? Right. At what cost in lives to us and with what success rate? They kill 3000 of ours and we sentence one of theirs (if we catch them) to life in prison IF they get sentenced at all. Will a Muslim court EVER side with a secular court? No way - they are under Allah's law, we are under man's law; Allah's law is supreme.
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You would probably not need to act against them at all. An organization without considerable financial support would never be able to organize something as complex as the 9/11 attack