What If?

I wonder sometimes what would have been that in the 1960s and 1980s, instead of blowing up buses and supermarkets and pizzerias and many other public places, the Palestinian leaders would have stay at the same table with their Israeli counterparts looking seriously for a long-term peaceful solutions. The Israeli leaders at the time were many of them old warriors in Independence War but they had a political sense and intelligence of the moment that would have for sure help in finding a way. Much smarter and experienced that what you have to deal with nowadays, anyway. 

The tactics of terror didn't lead to anything and only increased the enormous gap between 'we' and 'them', almost deleting the chances of peace. If any. The fact that nowadays people that were directly involved in terrorist acts are still considered heroes is completely out of my understanding. The fact that terrorism left for a long time the Middle East where it polished its methods - and, as in the case of the RAF, also trained its perpetrators, often with a little help from their Russian friends and their weapons - and is ready to claim its victims of any religion and from anywhere in the world shall give a lot of food for thought. 

A couple of days ago, a convicted terrorist, the Jordanian-born Rasmea Odeh was scheduled to be a speaker in Berlin, at an event organised by BDS supporters. A military member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine she perpetrated the bombing of the SuperSol Supermarket in Jerusalem in 1969 that killed two people. She spent 10 years in an Israeli prison and was released following a prisoner exchange for an Israeli soldier captured in Lebanon. Through fraud, she tried to get the American citizenship and following deportation she is living currently in Jordan. 

As usual, the German authorities do their meandering game. She was allowed to enter the country, but following protests on behalf of the Jewish community and some politicians and scholars, she was requested to leave the country.

Inviting a person like Rasmea Odeh to speak shows how much care for a peaceful solution is worth i the eyes of the BDS. Terror haven't lead anyway and will never do. Terror will only bring more terror and retaliation, a sequel of a never ending conflict with no peaceful/political solution in sight. If you want a war, expect the laws of war to apply. Why should innocent people pay for your political fantasies? And you expect a stage after all? Terrorism has no place in the political fight and all those who are trying to prove it otherwise shall pay the biggest possible price. The fact that Rasmea Odeh is free and is openly sharing her 'experiences' after killing 2 innocent people is part of this abnormality that rules in the Middle East for way too long.