By Mark Silverberg
Last month's meeting between former President Jimmy Carter and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in Damascus has once again highlighted the perils of negotiating with terrorists. Carter emerged from that meeting and declared that Hamas, under certain conditions, was prepared to recognize Israel. Like so many other naïve idealists, he does not understand that Hamas was, is and remains an uncompromising jihadist organization bent on the conquest of its neighbor, regardless of what it says.
In March 2007, the Director of the Centre for Defense Studies at King's College, Peter R. Neumann, laid out the essential premise for not negotiating with terrorists: "Democracies must never give in to violence, and terrorists must never be rewarded for using it. Negotiations give legitimacy to terrorists and their methods undermine actors who have pursued political change through peaceful means. Talks can destabilize the negotiating governments' political systems and undercut international efforts to outlaw terrorism." Read more ...
Last month's meeting between former President Jimmy Carter and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in Damascus has once again highlighted the perils of negotiating with terrorists. Carter emerged from that meeting and declared that Hamas, under certain conditions, was prepared to recognize Israel. Like so many other naïve idealists, he does not understand that Hamas was, is and remains an uncompromising jihadist organization bent on the conquest of its neighbor, regardless of what it says.
In March 2007, the Director of the Centre for Defense Studies at King's College, Peter R. Neumann, laid out the essential premise for not negotiating with terrorists: "Democracies must never give in to violence, and terrorists must never be rewarded for using it. Negotiations give legitimacy to terrorists and their methods undermine actors who have pursued political change through peaceful means. Talks can destabilize the negotiating governments' political systems and undercut international efforts to outlaw terrorism." Read more ...
Source: Family Security Matters
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