A. This was an act of calculated terrorism--violence against civilians for a political end--and not, as some of the media would have it, the act of a deranged individual. Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator, should be considered no more unbalanced than Yigal Amir (Rabin's assassin) or a Hamas or Qaeda suicide bomber. The racist, anti-foreign, anti-Muslim beliefs that motivated him can be found not only elsewhere in Europe and the United States but in Israel as well, well-established on the right wing of the Knesset.