To destroy the terror we must do every act of terror to lead to a result, which does not approach them but moves off from its goal.

The war continues in Israel and it took more our people than the USA have lost during the war on Iraq. In this war we are under attack and lose our people and trust. This war has no end and this impels us to think about the rightness of our way. This way is not effective. It does not work and cannot work. The tactics of revenge allows us to defend ourselves but not more, while a forced severity of revenge does not add us friends. But the most important is the fact that this way does not increase in our protection and safety. Politics of revenge is not able to win terror because it is related to executors and mid-level managers, which may be simply replaced for other ones. The headquarters of terror, which pay money for that deadly work, is far and the revenge does not reach it.

It is written a lot on the psychology of terrorism. A civilization supporting terror is based on its traditional totalitarian mentality and personal conscience is there under the strong influence of group profit. Such civilization may foster ferocious hatred and send its members to the death when it brings profit. And then hatred, merged with the cult of terroristic heroism, surpasses all other feelings of its followers and turns them in shells, filled in with death. The revenge and suffering of their families cannot stop them, and the death of one of them stimulates others. And this will continue until they are considered as heroes in the eyes of their organization or nation.

To break down this vicious circle and destroy terrorism, we must destroy the halo of heroism around it. For this not individual but collective revenge is needed, so that the organization, which sends its members to death and glorifies them, would curse them. Then the terrorism will be ended.

For this no vengeance and punitive operations are needed. Nothing of it is needed. We should leave it not because of a moral aspect; it is not a right moment to say about the moral when the enemy kills children. We must abandon it because it does not work. There is more effective way that is to force those, who organize and support terror, to pay by land for their crime.

We should leave revenge politics but respond on each act of terror by extending security zone and deporting population supporting terrorism. We must carry out this steadfast and hardly, responding on each act of terror by the compression of its boundary. Their aim is our land. And if each terror act will move them farther from their goal, then they conceive their hatred for those who are responsible for it.

Of course, this will also produce a barrage of critics but then we would have something for our defense: we refused from revenge and all what we do is pushing away from us the boundary of the evil and enemy world, without killing and revenge. We will be said on suffering of “innocent people”. But these “innocent people” welcome and support terror. We will be said on inadmissibility of a collective punishment. But we will deport those who support openly terrorists and they are majority. We do not want to kill anyone but we must settle them out from us because they kill us. And this is the only way to win terror.

By extending security zone, we must build security wall and move it outwards after each attack and provocation. Responding on each terror act by the compression of its area makes the terror to be counterproductive.

The thought to force terrorists to pay for terror by land is not a new idea. But our government continues to move in the way, which is not able to improve the situation. We always struck back after an attack on us and often it was reasonable but not in this case. The land for terror is the only method for our defense, and rejecting revenge and killing makes this method not only more humane but also more effective.

And again I want to repeat that the terror will be defeated if each terror act leads to a result, which is opposite to its goal. When they will pay by land for each act of terror.

Moshe Mahov Адрес электронной почты защищен от спам-ботов. Для просмотра адреса в вашем браузере должен быть включен Javascript.

The author is a professor of physics, presently in USA

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