After Studying Pre-State Jewish Terrorists, Author Asks: Does Terrorism Work?

After Studying Pre-State Jewish Terrorists, Author Asks: Does Terrorism Work?

J. P. O'Malley - The Times of Israel

http://www.timesofisrael.com/author-compares-pre-state-jewish-terrorists-with-hamas/

... In his recently published book "Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle For Israel 1917-1947," author Bruce Hoffman - a terrorism analyst, who was once a scholar-in-residence for counterterrorism at the CIA - claims that the [1946] bombing of the King David Hotel, even 69 years later, remains one of the most infamous acts of terrorism the world has ever seen ... Powell admitted that powerful Western governments throughout the 20th century - particularly the British - operated with appalling hypocrisy by initially claiming that men like Nelson Mandela, Martin McGuinness, and Menachem Begin were terrorists, then, in the blink of an eye, portraying these men as honorable statesmen and forgetting about past atrocities.