Shavit doesn't like the question, calling it political. If Arafat was a terrorist, period, he would not enter the peace process. Arafat is in a phase where he doesn't rule out terrorism in extreme situations. But to say Arafat is a terrorist through and through is a great exaggeration. Shavit agrees with Woolsey that terrorists aren't easily deterred.
Terrorism is a poor man's warfare and it requires little funding or support.
He kept on operating. Sometimes we knocked him off balance. But we never managed to stop him. The case study used of a successful campaign against terrorism was the British in Burma. Shavit becomes uneasy, but before long the man who headed what he says is the best group of spies in the world relents.