This seems to have been Germany's foreign policy for at least the last 40 years.
Someday the chickens are going to come home to roost and it won't be pretty.
Par for the course.
More pronounced in dovish, SPD governments-remember Ostpolitik-but even conservative governments aren't immune to this disease.
During the 1970s the Germans made a pact with Palestinian terror gangs that they wouldn't crack down on them, so long as they didn't perpetrate their crimes on German soil.
Forget for a moment that the Bader-Meinhof Gang-the white, Marxist comrades of the PLO-served as a proxy.
The point is that Germany placates terror-as have so many other countries, including this one-at its own peril.
You look the other way when a Fatah skyjacker decides to make use of your misguided hospitality, and the next thing you know Turkish Islamists are hatching a scheme to blow up Attaturk's mausoleum, and the Hamburg cell is planning the destruction of the WTC from across the Atlantic.