What is the book in which people in sleighs, traveling 
    across the Russian steppes, are beset by wolves, and begin
    to toss children overboard, one by one, in the hope that 
    the wolves will be satiated or distracted? That is the 
    image that comes to mind. Toss the terrorists a bit of 
    land--ultimately, of course, Israel--and maybe they will 
    be satisfied and leave the rest of us alone. It is an 
    unedifying spectacle.