While terrorism is rightly viewed as an illegitimate means, nationalism is a rational, and often legitimate, goal, and it is shared by many people who are not terrorists. Unlike in the case of millenarian terrorists like Al Qaeda, for whom the goal is amorphous–nationalist extremists’ more realistic objectives might make it possible to neutralize them by addressing the root issue (for example, the creation of a viable Palestinian state).
Contrairement aux terroristes millénaristes tels que ceux d’Al Qaïda, pour qui l’objectif est ambigu, les objectifs plus réalistes des extrémistes nationalistes rend possible leur neutralisation en s’adressant à la racine du problème (la création, par exemple, d’un État palestinien viable).