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Releasing Terrorists: New Victims Pay the Price

August 24, 2008 | Nadav Shragai

According to an informal estimate by Israeli security bodies, about 50 percent of the terrorists freed for any reason whatsoever returned to the path of terror, either as a perpetrator, a planner, or as an accomplice. In the terror acts committed by these freed terrorists, hundreds of Israelis were murdered, and thousands were wounded.

Talking to Terrorists: The Myths, Misconceptions and Misapplication of the Northern Ireland Peace Process

July 17, 2008 | John Bew, Martyn Frampton

For the British government, formal negotiations with the IRA could only occur in a context in which republican violence had been brought to an end.

The Strategic Challenge of Gaza

April 19, 2007 | Yoav Galant

Disengagement caused the terror organizations to turn to new terror methods such as Kassam rockets, tunnels, and crossing over from Gaza to Sinai and then into the Negev, as happened in January 2007 with a Palestinian suicide bomber in Eilat. It is now possible for terrorists to move freely between Gaza and Egypt, and from there to Syria, Lebanon, and Iran for training.