ABSTRACT
The Jonathan Institute has dedicated itself to explore certain national and international problems, the treatment of which may vitally affect the future of Israel and the entire democratic world. Terrorism is one of these issues. It would seem almost natural to have this issue included among the Institute's main objects of study, simply because Jonathan fell in the battle against terrorism, and the Institute was named after him. To the founders of the Institute it was obvious that terrorism had become or was becoming one of the most crucial issues of our time, one that presents some of the greatest threats, and was perhaps the least adequately treated. The virtual paralysis in which the free world finds itself, when it comes to forming an answer to terrorism, must be related to moral, no less than to material and political, causes. It is perhaps amazing, but much of the free world refuses to recognize what it sees.
