Middle East: Palestine Terrorism Angers Israel

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First off, I'm wondering why this article got stuck in the back of the news section of the Post Dispatch. But that's irrelevant.

As you all know, or should know, some guy named Abbas won the Palestinian elections, and he says he'll stop terrorism and violence against Israel in order to get Palestinians the statehood that they all want. The problem is, there's still racist radicals who still want to wipe every Jew off the face of the earth.

There was apparently some talking going on, or talk about some talking, or, well, some kind of communication that was or might be happening between Abbas and Sharon, Israel's prime minister. But that all stopped after some Palestinian terrorists killed six Israelis. Sharon says Abbas must halt militant attacks if he wants peace talks. Good luck, Abbas.

It's interesting that the paper reports the death of six "Israelis." Not militants, or soldiers, just "Israelis." I think I can infer that means "civilians." So why don't they say civilians? Why does everyone want Israel to look so bad and Palestine to look so good? They just killed six more innocent civilians! Whenever Israel kills something, the news blurbs always say "Israelis kill two Palestinian militants" or something like that. Militants. Soliders. The Israelis try hard not to kill Palestinian civilians. The Palestinians kill Israeli civilians all the time and don't care. Alan Dershowitz has clearly pointed that out in his book The Case For Israel, which is an amazing book on the truth behind Israel and Palestine and the incredible international media bias against Israel. And the everyday news headlines only confirms that fact.

But let's forget about the media bias for a second, because that's not going to change, unless everyone reads Dershowitz's book. (Yes, I'm plugging that book. I never plug things on my blog. So here's one thing I'm plugging. You should all go read it. Now.) Let's try to focus on the big question: Is there any hope for peace between Israel and Palestine? The obvious answer: not as long as there's still the racist radicals who hate every single Jew and want to kill them all.

Former Palestine leader Arafat turned down a peace compromise with former Israeli leader Barak in 2000. Dershowitz says that it's because "major terrorist groups... oppose the existence of Israel... they have pledged to continue terrorism against Israel's Jews until all of Palestine is liberated and not one inch of it is under Jewish control... The real reason why Arafat turned down Barak's offer is that he was afraid to make peace with Israel... He knew that radical Islamic groups...would regard anyone who accepted it as a traitor, deserving the death that had been meted out to so many others...who had previously accepted Israel's right to exist."

Even if Abbas's motives are completely pure, which I don't necessarily believe anyway, he's never going to be able to create a compromise as long as these terrorist groups still exist. They're going to keep attacking Israel regardless, and if he tries to make peace with Israel, they'll probably try to kill him.

This has always been true, but now it's coming to a head, because Israel has said they won't talk anymore unless Abbas can stop them. Can Abbas stop them? Will he try to stop them? Does he want to stop them? Only when these questions are answered can the "big question" of peace be answered. Call me pragmatic, but it's not happening any time soon.

Edmond the Hun