It's All The Jews Fault

Found these two articles juxtaposed against each other today. Very interesting contrast.

Haaretz - Hamas repeats pledge to continue suicide attacks

JPost: Settlement outpost removals to begin

So, Hamas is going to continue the intifada because they're ticked off at Abu Mazen, but the Israelis are going to begin dismantling settlements.

This is why land for peace or any other plan that requires Israel to make any concessions before the Palestinians make substantial changes will be doomed to failure. The Israelis have tried time and time again to start the process by making unilateral and unreciprocated concessions.

It has got to be becoming painfully clear to even the most diehard peacenik that the Palestinians, as represented by Arafat, Hamas and the other suicide groups, want nothing to do with peace. Peace means the end of their reason for being. Peace means a shift from being blameless revolutionaries to actually having to govern and be accountable.

Peace means no more buying ambulances to transport weapons; it means have to transport patients to hospitals that have real drugs and real doctors.

Peace means no more blowing up roads and bridges; it means having to build and maintain them.

Peace means no more relying on Israel to divert the attention of the malcontents created by years of disinformation and indoctrination; it means having to deal with your own security and education.

Peace means the end of Hamas and Arafat's Fatah organization. They can only tear down that which others have built. They have no purpose in a functional society.

Israel needs to quit playing these games and the US needs to quit organizing them. When the Palestinians want peace, they'll begin by making real and tangible concessions - the first of which will be the real acceptance of a Jewish state in the Middle East.