No nation on earth can make peace with a neighbor steeped in violent tendencies, that teaches its future generations to hate and seek death while doing as much harm as possible to its enemies.
And yet, the world demands that Israel do just that - make peace with a Palestinian Arab society that cannot even keep from killing each other.
Amidst the din of weeks of “Palestinian” infighting, the media can be excused for missing the story that since December 1, Muslim terrorists have bombed 45 Internet cafes in the Gaza Strip. Forty-five! In three months!
Imagine if that was happening in the US. It would be declared a terror epidemic.
But alas, this is only the latest example of the Palestinian Arabs’ propensity for economic self-destruction.
It is no secret any longer that the Arab states of the Middle East have no intention of resettling the so-called “Palestinian refugees” and easing their lives. They are far too valuable as diplomatic pawns in the great quest to destroy Israel.
What is a real shame, though, is that nations like the United States do not demand that the UN stop helping the Arabs to perpetuate the daily suffering of these people.
One of the primary tenets of the “Oslo” peace accords signed between Israel and the Palestinians in 1993 was that both sides would educate their populations for peace with the other.
With half of Israel’s population running about demanding capitulation to Arab demands even in the absence of Arab compliance and a majority of Israelis willing to make territorial compromises, we know Jerusalem has more than kept its side of the bargain.
But how have the Palestinians fared in this regard?
Extreme Israeli leftist peace activists demanded on Saturday that the government demolish the grave of a Jewish resident of Hebron who gunned down 29 “Palestinians” at the cave where Israel’s patriarchs are buried in 1994.
The call came after scuffles broke out between a group of fellow Hebron residents who had gathered in memory of the killer and police officers who were on hand to arrest anyone that displayed support for individuals or groups deemed to be “Jewish terrorists.”
Meryl Yourish already noted the diabolical cleverness of Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal when on Monday he turned the tables on Israel by insisting that Jerusalem “recognize the Palestinian state’s right to exist.”
Mashaal remained on game today when he very vaguely hinted that maybe, just maybe, Hamas might think about making peace with Israel at some undefined point in the unforeseeable future.
By now, anyone concerned enough about Israel to look beyond what the mainstream international press is reporting knows that on Sunday, two knife-wielding “Palestinian” teenagers ambushed and brutally murdered a Jewish man while he was praying in a forest near his home in Judea.
Can anyone imagine what would happen if two Jewish settler teens stalked, ambushed and hacked to death a “Palestinian” Muslim on his prayer carpet?
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday demonstrated that he is not completely dense when it comes to the true intentions of the Palestinian Arabs.
Resolutions introduced in both the US Senate and House of Representatives this week very belatedly recognizing that there was once a Jewish refugee crisis in the Middle East are both promising and dangerous.
Once again, PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas - that illustrious, Holocaust-denying “moderate” - has openly stated that his primary concern is with forwarding “Palestinian” national interests, and not necessarily with making peace with Israel.
Will anyone listen to him this time? Certainly not in the halls of power in Washington and Jerusalem. Continue reading »
