The terrorist and Palestinian society feed off one another, in other words -- with the terrorist earning self-esteem, and the whipped up population-at-large exulting in his exploits as if he were a sports hero. In such a toxic intellectual climate, it's no surprise that the staid, compromising tactics of Abbas would be rejected. Romanticized violence, embodied by Arafat and his terror puppets, is the currency of the realm.
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