Terror and the Ethics of Resistance.

The author shares insight on terror attacks and the ethics of resistance to an oppressive authority. He cites the political speech delivered by South African anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela as a defendant in the Rivonia Trial in 1964, detailing the changing strategies and tactics of the African National Congress (ANC) in defiance of apartheid laws and resistance to oppressive authority, that included rejection of terrorism and a campaign of assaults against military personnel without violating their ideals. He notes the struggle of the ANC to create a South Africa in which black and white people lived together without hatred. In the case of the Middle East, he finds Israel's treatment as horrific to keep the Palestinian people under a brutal and humiliating military occupation.