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Remember + Honor + Stand Together

Day 18 — September 28

The First Jihadi Attack on the West That No One Noticed

There was an earlier attack on a democracy most people never recognized as one. Its victims got filed under “unrest” instead of war.

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September 28

There was an earlier attack on a democracy most people never recognized as one. Its victims got filed under “unrest” instead of war.

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Remember + Honor + Stand Together

Day 18 — September 28

The First Jihadi Attack on the West That No One Noticed

There was an earlier attack on a democracy most people never recognized as one. Its victims got filed under “unrest” instead of war.

The 1990s were a genuinely hopeful decade. The Soviet Union had just collapsed, and there was real optimism that peaceful, negotiated solutions could resolve even the world's most stubborn conflicts.

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Instead, the talks collapsed — not because the offer on the table was unreasonable (it included the previously unthinkable division of Jerusalem).

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September 28

There was an earlier attack on a democracy most people never recognized as one. Its victims got filed under “unrest” instead of war.

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  • Richard Landes, “Shame-Honor Motivations in Arab-Muslim Opposition to Zionism”
  • Richard Landes, “Land for Peace Means War: The Road to the Oslo Jihad,” 2000
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