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On This Day… … thirty nine years ago, the Dawson’s Field hijackings were in progress.
I have long thought – longer than eight years – that the seeds of a poison tree were sown by an event that happened soon afterwards. To quote the Wikipedia entry linked to above:
About two weeks after the start of the crisis, the remaining hostages were recovered from locations around Amman and exchanged for Leila Khaled and several other PFLP prisoners.
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I remember as a child thinking at the time how insignificant it was.
‘The adults will never tolerate this,’ I thought, and at school we laughed at the terrorists’ ignorance, superstition, and cowardice, their dirty and hysterical demeanour.
I did not realise that this phoney war (Link)would last so long.
It is fashionable to say “terrorism can not be defeated” (for X, Y, Z, reasons). Actually it can be defeated – but there is no WILL in the ruling circles of the West to defeat terrorism.
Not just in the Obama Administration (“curses be upon” Barack Obama and all those associated with him), but in other Western governments also.