Counterproductive violence

The Basque terrorist organisation ETA has exploded a car bomb in a car park in front of the main building of the private University of Navarre in Pamplona. It was only thanks to pure luck that no one was killed. The daily El País comments on ETA's strategy in Navarre, the Basque country's neighbouring region: "ETA is acting in the name of a goal that moves further out of its reach with every terrible attack like this one against students and professors. It is clinging to violence as a tool even though it's counterproductive to the objective that in theory it seeks to achieve: the defence of the Basque identity in Navarre. The weakness of ETA is thus first and foremost a political weakness, and it is no coincidence that unconditional support for violence among Basque nationalist voters has sunk in the past 12 months from 20 percent to 2 percent."

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