Word: infliction
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...Israelis would have no surefire way of stopping the Hizballah from launching its huge inventory of Iranian-supplied bombardment rockets at the villages and cities of northern Israel. Although grossly inaccurate, they would still inflict damage. Syria also has hundreds of bombardment rockets, some with chemical warheads, but unlike the Hizballah guerrillas, it must fear Israeli retaliation. No Arab air force is likely to be much of a threat to Israeli cities, while if Saddam Hussein chooses to blow his cover by launching the handful of ballistic missiles he has kept hidden all these years, they are unlikely...
There is, however, a key difference to which the international community at times seems oblivious; Israel, unlike the Palestinian leadership, does not wish to inflict indiscriminate casualties. In the past few weeks there have been countless examples of this basic difference in policy...
...sheer necessity of ending terrorism. Talk of eliminating the “causes” of terrorism is perhaps noble and perspicacious, but it does nothing to address the present problem. There are thousands of militants whose only “cause” is to inflict terror upon Israel. Such militants cannot be swayed by reason or logic, but they can be stopped by force...
...Israel may have one of the world's strongest conventional fighting forces ranged against an enemy armed only with assault rifles, homemade bombs, mortars and rockets, but that asymmetry is reversed when it comes to political will, he writes. The readiness of Palestinian militants to die in order to inflict pain is mirrored in growing doubts among Israelis over the purpose of putting their own troops in harm's way in the West Bank and Gaza. "Every day Israeli soldiers weep over their dead comrades," says Van Creveld. "Every day the parents of Palestinian suicide bombers proudly display their children...
...young urban poor. Through sporadic political successes, the legitimacy of jihad was able to spread and grow throughout the Muslim world. For Muslims who answered the call of jihad and declared the United States and all its citizens their sworn enemies, terrorism became the best method with which to inflict the greatest injury...