Boaz Ganor Quotes
Offensively attack the terrorist so that you will not suffer the result of terrorism the next time.
Boaz Ganor, Israeli Counter-Terrorism Expert, Director, Institute for Counter-Terrorism, Speech, George Washington University, April 21, 2005
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He argues that even if the concession to terrorists is seemingly small, there is much greater damage in that the minimal concession will also stimulate more attempts to gain other victories. See {629723} for his complementary statement on dealing with terrorists.
The German Green party was traditionally a left wing party, very concerned with civil rights and generally opposed to repressive use of police and military. However, faced with terrorism, the party would consider what under circumstances other than terror would have been unthinkable.
He was criticizing the George W. Bush administration for attacking Iraq, a country which had not attacked the United States or Americans abroad while America did not attack those terrorists and countries which had killed Americans. For example, Hezbollah which blew up the Marine Barracks in Lebanon and the naval ship Cole.
He served Presidents Reagan, Clinton, and both Bushes. The “Cole” was the United States Navy ship that was bombed killing American sailors by Al Qaida. The argument of some against retaliation was that the intelligence and investigatory had not yet assembled incontrovertible proof the Al Qaida had done it.
He served Presidents Reagan, Clinton, and both Bushes
Boaz Ganor (Hebrew: בועז גנור) is the former dean of the Lauder School of Government and Diplomacy at the Interdisciplinary Center. He is the founder and the executive director of the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism, and is a member of Israel’s National Committee for Homeland Security Technologies, of the International Advisory Board of Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies (IDSS) in Singapore, and of the International Advisory team of the Manhattan Institute (CTCT) to the New-York Police Department (NYPD).
