On a military level, the tactics the Palestinians have so far adopted are an interesting blend of state-of-the-art missile attacks with old-fashioned knife and bomb-in-the-briefcase attacks.
The Kremlin's other demands include access to the core of America's state-of-the-art missile defense systems - hit-to-kill technology that has a host of applications beyond anti-missile missions.
Such an abuse occurred most recently when Commerce tried to keep the Defense Department and others from blocking the sale to Iraq of state-of-the-art furnaces useful for manufacturing ballistic missile components.