In this third installment of this series, I return to where I started - how individuals and groups that support terrorism garner support for their causes in the periods of discord and can be thwarted by peace. Those people for the most part are supportive of the peace process as it will give them some control over their own lives. When looking at the TV or Internet, you are likely to see the violent side of things as this is what the media has come to expect people want to know.
Terrorists know the media as well, or better than, most media experts.
They know that their causes will be fully covered if they do something drastic and high profile. This gets back to the point then that if peace can be achieved, the terrorists will not have the ability to alter events so substantially as they did following the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Rabin. We saw that the bombings of buses in Tel Aviv after Rabin's death enabled the current Prime Minister, Benjamin Netenyahu, to take office on a platform of peace through security. As we have seen thus far, Israel has had neither because the bombings have sporadically continued and the enactment of the Oslo Accords has been held up by squabbles regarding the security arrangements. The terrorist groups knew that if the peace process had continued after Rabin's death, a major breakthrough could have occurred, robbing them of their manpower base.