A military operation “ was described in Paris as in Tel Aviv as a terrorist attack. This parallel reveals the differing ethnic perceptions of bodily suffering, legitimate violence and the right to resistance, depending on whether people are assimilated to the West or not.” Condemning violence to legitimise one’s own
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51