[hershey]

Any time the West/Israel/the US back down or make conciliatory moves/statements in the face of Arab bad behavior, it encourages worse behavior. They strut around, talking big and ignorant Arab masses think they're demigods. It's Nazi Germany all over again. Same pathology.

[gondramB]

"Any time the West/Israel/the US back down or make conciliatory moves/statements in the face of Arab bad behavior, it encourages worse behavior."

I wonder sometimes if you should have to have an "A" in introductory psychology to serve in government - at least so you would understand that if you reward a behavior you get more of it, not less.