Posted on 10/22/2005 4:36:22 PM PDT by Valin
What is the price of trying to make life easier for the Palestinians? A simple answer: murder most foul. Israel voluntarily removed roadblocks; so terrorists in a Fatah group, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, put stolen Israeli license plates on a car, sped by a crowd at a hitching post, and opened fire with automatic weapons. Three young Israelis, including a 15-year-old, were killed, and four others were wounded. Now the entire Palestinian population will have to bear the burden of tighter Israeli security. To protect its citizens, Israel has to ban all private Palestinian cars from the main roads, rebuild roadblocks and barriers throughout Judea and Samaria, and end the turnover of West Bank towns (especially Bethlehem) to the Palestinian Authority.
The lamentable inertia of the PA's president, Mahmoud Abbas, has brought this on his people. The Fatah group freely boasted of what it had done, but Abbas did not pursue the terrorists nor even condemn them. Nor is he doing anything about the smuggling of people and weapons from Gaza and Sinai into the West Bank. Terrorism and the incitement to violence continue unabated outside the attention of western media, which are all too ready to scream if there is an Israeli misdemeanor.
The sickening story of Hasan al-Madhoun is worth a little attention, you'd think. At the Sharm al-Sheikh summit in February, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told Abbas about the former Palestinian security officer who organized a suicide bombing at Ashdod in March 2004. He even gave him his address. Abbas promised an arrest within 48 hours. More than 48 days later, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice repeated the request to Abbas, who again promised to arrest Madhoun. Madhoun was called into a police station, spent the evening there on his cellphone, and left the next day.
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We have got to stop tell the Israelis what they can and cannot do. If you had people riding by your house everyday and they took shots at your family and the police said don't worry about it eventually they will stop, what would you do. I know what I would do
Zuckerman is wrong, Abbas is no good man.
Abbas is a terrorist as much as Arafat was.
To expect the PA to renounce terror is the same as expecting rain to not be wet.
Or a rattler not to strike.
What Abbas "must" do and what he "will" do lies an bottomless pit that Abbas refuses to cross.
I agree.
I would give the "Palestinians" 30 days to get their act in gear or to leave.
If they want to act as if they are at war - fine - let them have it.
In fact - what they do is illegal even if they were at war - targeting civilians, hiding among civilians, etc.
The next attack from an organized group of Palestinians known to the Palestinian government to have militant objectives should be accepted as a declaration of war by the Palestinian government, and responded to completely and thoroughly.
Abbas is a terrorist puke in a suit. Hardly a good man.
BumP, I totally agree, if the Arabs cannot come to peace in 50 years they never will. They are the perpetualy offended sect of bratty children, grown up to be mass murderers.
Why give them the chance to get the bomb?
He is acting...
acting just like Arafat...
which is exactly what the PTB pay him to...
imo
PTB?
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The problem is the corrupt and heartless UN and EU leadership. In my opinion, all it would take would be a ninety day cutoff of the millions in aid money. Suddenly Abbas would find a humanitarian interest (that is, an interest in his and his clan's bank accounts) in stopping terrorism.
I should have included the US and Russians in that condemnation, too.
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