the finale of the speech of the chairman of the jury, anatoly fedorovich koni, at the trial against thevera zasulich. in 1878, she was tried for the attempt on the life of the st. petersburg mayor trepov and was acquitted, taking into account lofty motives and hard life of the accused. the acquittal of the lone terrorist split society. progressives applauded, conservatives were outraged. acts of individual or mass violence, motivated by the desire to achieve political goals, have not been and cannot be abandoned by terror; this is one of the military actions that may be quite suitable and even necessary at a certain moment of battle and under certain conditions, even before the formation of the state of israel in british mandate in palestine, terrorist attacks were carried out by jewish militants who fought simultaneously with the arabs and the british occupation forces, and after the formation of israel and the war of 1948, terror became the main... this, for example, happened with the european left, like the red brigades, various basque groups that fought for independence or the irish