ABSTRACT
Israel’s people were deeply concerned with the fate of the hundred passengers, hostages in a faraway country. The families of the passengers had reached the heights of their concern, and in a way, the nation and those families were like one family. The second part of the 20th century has seen national and ethnic conflicts expressed in two different strategies: The strategy which stems from the existence of nuclear arms and the strategy which is based upon the outburst of repeated terror. In the case of sophisticated arms, negotiations may precede their usage; in the case of terror, only when it ceases can negotiations proceed. Terror, aside from affecting its victims, engenders a refusal to negotiate within its own ranks. Terrorists live under the impression that their way of fighting is strategy and not just tactics.
