The Gentle Art of Negotiating With Terrorists
The first rule of negotiating with Islamic terrorists is don’t. The second rule is if you do it, do it with heavy artillery. Islamic terrorists don’t negotiate. They make demands in hopes of securing concessions without actually giving up anything. Only the most dedicated historian could find an example of a negotiation process during which the Islamic terrorists made an actual concession, followed through on it and did not later take it back or turn right around and go back to terrorism. The most prominent counterexamples are the three decades of negotiations between Israel and Islamic terrorist groups which initially won a round of Nobel Prizes and then degenerated into an endless war during which the terrorists took back every concession they ever made, did not follow through on any of them and used Israeli concessions to become a much worse threat. Negotiating with the Taliban, Hezbollah, and Iran all had the same end result. Offering to negotiate with Islamic terrorists is a state