their story seems to say something about the futility of terrorism as a shortcut for persuasion. but somehow the message doesn't seem to be reaching the weather underground or northern ireland or the middle east. >> good evening. for the second time in a month, arab terrorists have staged a bloody attack inside israel. >> it happened in a small settlement called ma'oalt, five miles from the border of lebanon. it began when the terrorists seized the high school. >> in the aftermath of the munich olympic attack, governments finally realized that terrorism was both evolving and becoming worse and therefore they had to confront the terrorists head-on. >> the terrorists are saying that, unless their demands are met, they'll blow up the school, killing themselves and all the children inside. as they negotiate it, a special israeli anti-terrorist unit moved alongside the school. >> ma'alt i think was an exemplar of counterterrorism's evolution.