[A report on a study by Max Abrahams, "Why Terrorism Does Not Work," International Security, Fall 2006, Vol. 31, No. 2, Pages 42-78 (doi:10.1162/isec.2006.31.2.42)]

"Terrorism is many things, but justifiable is not among them. The person who justifies terror in any form, is declaring that it is legitimate in certain cases to kill innocent people. If justifying the murder of innocents because they belong to a certain hated group is not abject racism, I'd like to know what is."

Missile fire from Gaza on Israeli civilian targets
Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, August 22, 2007

Arafat's Children: Gaza's mayhem is the bitter fruit of terror as statecraft
The Wall Street Journal, June 16, 2007

"A society that has spent the last decade celebrating suicide bombing has inevitably become a victim of its own nihilistic impulses. [...] It is the bitter fruit of the decades of dictatorship and terrorism as statecraft that Yasser Arafat instilled among Palestinians."

The Psychological Framework of Suicide Terrorism by Irwin J. Mansdorf
Jerusalem Letter/Viewpoints No. 496, April 15, 2003
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs

Resources 

• America's War Against Terrorism: Psychological Causes of Terrorism: The University of Michigan's mega Internet documents center provides U.S. foreign policy and government information about America's war against terrorism and its aftermath.
• Center for Interdisciplinary Policy, Education, and Research on Terrorism (CIPERT)
• Combating Terrorism Center at West Point: Annotated Bibliography of Terrorism and Counterterrorism Research (Volume One; Volume Two): An annotated bibliography produced by faculty and researchers of the Combating Terrorism Center serves as an information resource for students, researchers, policy makers, teachers, the media, and the general public.
• Center for Defense Information (CDI): Terrorism Project: CDI's Terrorism Project is designed to provide insights, in-depth analysis, and facts on the military, security, and foreign policy challenges of terrorism.
• Counterterrorism Blog
• Institute for Counter-Terrorism: This think tank provides detailed profiles of terrorist organizations and brief reports on terrorist-related activities.
• The Intelligence & Terrorism Information Center (ITIC) at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC)
• International Center for the Study of Terrorism: The center is built around a core of universities that use theories, methods, findings, and perspectives from a wide range of disciplines, including psychology and sociology, and apply them to studying terrorism and to developing effective means of responding to the threat of terrorism.
• The Investigative Project on Terrorism
  : "The world's most comprehensive data center on radical Islamic terrorist groups.  For more than a decade, the IPT has investigated the operations, funding, activities and front groups of Islamic terrorist and extremist groups in the United States and around the world."
• Kennedy School of Government: Undermining Terrorism: This portal captures key academic papers, reports, books, op-eds, and conferences on undermining terrorism.
• Middle East Media Research Institute: Islamist Websites Monitor Project: The Islamist Websites Monitor, which focuses on the major jihadi Web sites, will be regularly releasing translated news, analysis, and videos from these sites.
• International Terrorism Database of the Anti-Defamation League: A compilation of significant terrorist attacks against civilian targets, by region.
• Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
• Saving Lives: Israel's Security Fence
• Video clips
• The National Center on the Psychology of Terrorism (NCPT): This center argues that psychology and psychological science is critical to understanding terrorism and to combating its consequences.
• National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START): Based at the University of Maryland, START is tasked by the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate with using data from the social and behavioral sciences to improve understanding of the origins, dynamics, and social and psychological impacts of terrorism.
• Palestinian Rocket Report of the Jewish Policy Center
• Public Broadcasting System: Frontline--The Roots of Terror (Teacher's Guide)
• Terrorism Knowledge Base: a collaboration of government, nongovernmental organizations, and think tanks, covers the history, affiliations, locations, and tactics of terrorist groups operating across the world, with more than 35 years of terrorism incident data and hundreds of group and leader profiles and trials
• Statistics on Palestinian Terrorism from the West Bank and Gaza from The Israel Project
• U.S. Air National Guard: Conflict 21's Center for Psychology of Terrorism Studies
• U.S. Congress: Hearing on the Terrorist/Jihadist Use of the Internet for Strategic Communications
• U.S. Department of State: Confronting Terrorism (includes links to country reports on terrorism), Counterterrorism Office (S/CT)
• Winning Counterinsurgency War: The Israeli Experience by Maj.-Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror, Institute for Contemporary Affairs, the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs