[be-baw]

backhoe, thanks for adding this article to your comprehensive terrorism compendium. By the way, I very much appreciate all your efforts in researching and organizing various topics on FR. How you find time to do it all is beyond me.

xm177e2 and onyx: I wouldn't dismiss de Borchgrave so lightly. You might want to have a look at his biography.

[backhoe]

Appreciate your kind words- since I became a "househusband" in 1999, and especially since my wife's medical problems starting about a year ago, I find "long periods of boredom interspersed with brief moments of manic activity...."
( not unlike military service in wartime! )

Far as de Borchgrave goes, I have heard the man on C-Span, and FWIW he seems like an old-time Who, When, Where, What, Why kind of reporter. Didn't seem to have any blatant agenda.

[xm177e2]

Let me put this another way, if he wants to compare it to Algeria. If the French cut Algeria in half, and gave the separatists their own half, do you think they would have stopped the terror? Does the author really think the Algerians would have been content with half? They wanted it all, just like the Palestinians. Israel would be foolish not to see this.