"} 69:{"position":14,"content":"So, where do we go from here? What "policy sense" can we make of all this?

"} 6a:{"position":15,"content":"To begin, Jerusalem and Washington need to know that they confront a continuing masquerade. The declared motive of the"} 6b:{"position":16,"content":"Jihadist perpetrator remains only a convenient fiction. The torturer tortures, because he enjoys torturing. The Islamist terrorist terrorizes with a deeply atavistic, not a political, delight. "Palestinians spearhead Allah's war against the Jews." preach the PA-appointed clergy on the Temple Mount:"The dead shall not rise until the Palestinians shall kill all the Jews...."

"} 6c:{"position":17,"content":"This sermon is from "moderate" and US-supported PA/Fatah, not from "radical" Hamas. For several years, PA/Fatah "security forces" were trained by U.S. military personnel in nearby Jordan, at a cost of several hundred million US tax dollars. Today, these US-trained fighters function largely as anti-American and anti-Israel terrorists.

"} 6d:{"position":18,"content":"Typically, the torturer cannot be stopped by answering his contrived questions. Similarly, the martyrdom-seeking jihadist terrorist, spurred on with visions of a privileged ecstasy that lasciviously fuses sex, violence, and immortality, cannot be slowed by any well-intentioned surrender to his demands. For this Islamist operative, the chosen means of terror-violence are not only justified by the ends. They actually represent, in themselves, a fully palpable source of deep personal satisfaction.

"} 6e:{"position":19,"content":"In the authoritative and mainstream Pakistani text on Jihad, a document recovered from the bodies of many slai

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