Rewarding Barbaric Behavior Leads to More Barbaric Behavior

Rewarding Barbaric Behavior Leads to More Barbaric Behavior
Protesters lift placards and national flags during a rally demanding the release of Israelis taken hostage a hundred days earlier by Hamas on Oct. 7, outside the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem on Jan. 15, 2024. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty Images
Carl Schuster
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On May 23, Ireland, Spain, and Sweden rewarded Hamas’s barbaric behavior by presenting the Palestinian Authority, which cooperates with Hamas, with one of its and Hamas’s stated political goals—international recognition. In doing so, those European leaders sent a clear message to any terrorist group—commit atrocities, take hostages, and murder innocents, including babies, and European and American progressives will give them what the terrorists claim they want.

Carl Schuster
Carl Schuster
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Carl Schuster is an Instructor at the Department of History, Humanities, and International Studies in the College of Liberal Arts, Hawaii Pacific University.