Thursday, July 03, 2008

Bulldozer reflections


Palestinian Terrorism as a Natural Act -Bradley Burston

On a quiet morning in Jerusalem, a man behind the wheel of a bulldozer has taken it upon himself to kill Jews.

What's a decent person to think when Palestinian groups fall over one another trying to claim the bulldozer attack? And when one of the groups is the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade?

What is it that Palestinians really want?

I no longer believe that it's as simple as wanting statehood. This is what I don't yet want to admit: that for all these years, what a critical mass of Palestinians want most, perhaps even more than statehood, may be nothing more than seeing Jews dead and gone.
(Ha'aretz)


Terror's Predictable Spontaneity -Gerald M. Steinberg

The constant pattern for over sixty years has been that whenever violent attacks against Israelis were contained on one front, another front was immediately opened, often involving a different form of violence.

Now the shaky cease-fire in Gaza is the signal for a new and different form of violence against Israeli civilians. Palestinians have been raised on the armed struggle, and many are capable of acting on their own, with whatever weapons are most readily available.

The steady flow of incitement in the media plays a central role in this process, including Palestinian television programming preaching the virtues of martyrdom and the glory of fighting the Zionist enemy.

[This] action may appear to be spontaneous, but the foundation and preparations are never far away.
(Jerusalem Post)

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