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Why the Rush to Reward Terrorism?

Why the Rush to Reward Terrorism?
An Israeli soldier carries his child at the site of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas-led terrorists at the Nova music festival near Kibbutz Reim in southern Israel, on April 30, 2025. Ohad Zwigenberg/AP Photo
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Some U.S. politicians and the leaders of a few European countries pushing to recognize a Palestinian state reflect a 50-year pattern of rewarding terrorism.

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.