The number of Israeli citizens killed, as compared with the number of Palestinian citizens killed, also reflects different priorities in the allocation of medical care to the injured. Israel has allocated very substantial resources to its medical response to terrorism.

But the last thing Jordan wanted in 1994 was responsibility for the millions of Palestinians then living in the West Bank, especially after the aborted Palestinian civil war led by the PLO against King Hussein in 1970.

As the chart that appears in my book Why Terrorism Works vividly demonstrates, the more vicious, unlawful, and lethal the Palestinian terrorist attacks against civilians became, the more diplomatic recognition they have been accorded by the United Nations, which singled out the PLO from among all other representatives of stateless groups for

Israel’s record on the issue of torture is far better than that of any other Middle Eastern or any Muslim nation, and better than that of most democracies, including the United States, France, and Germany, but only Israel is repeatedly condemned for engaging in torture.

Resolution 242 of the U.N. Security Council, which for the first time in history ordered a nation to return territories lawfully captured in a defensive war. But it ordered this only as part of an overall peace agreement recognizing Israel’s right to “live in security.”

terrorism succeeds in securing a Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, why should it not continue to be used to secure what the vast majority of Palestinians say they want?

The most important and enduring steps toward peace are thus attitudinal:

Even the false argument over why the United States “tilts” toward Israel while the rest of the world is even-handed is often tinged with a not-so-subtle anti-Semitism. “The Jews control America,” it is claimed, and that is why the United States is so pro-Israel.

The Nazi regime in Germany and the Italian fascists supported the violence, sending millions of dollars to the mufti.4