The Palestinians Want A Cease-Fire!

Oh glorious day! The Palestinian leadership is now attempting to broker a new cease-fire to replace the one that just fell apart. Isn't this wonderful news?

Let's review for a moment. Hamas and its cronies agree to a "hudna," and temporarily stop their attacks on Israel. Israel continues to hunt down the very terrorists who have shown absolutely no respect for cease-fires or human life. Israel is successful. Hamas & friends break the "hudna" to retaliate. Israel rightly responds to the reescalation of violence. The terrorist leadership begins trying to negotiate a new cease-fire in which they receive "guarantees from Israel that it will cooperate."

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but it wasn't a suicidal Jew that blew up a bus full of Muslims on their way home from the mosque. And even when the Palestinians have been attempting to provoke the Israelis, the responses have been less than lethal. The Palestinians are killing the Israelis, literally. The Israelis are retaliating by injuring, not killing - injuring, Palestinians who are trying to kill them by any means available (including throwing rocks).

"We want a hudna (truce) between the whole Palestinian Authority and Israel, that Israel commit itself to as much as we do," Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath told reporters.

Umm. No you don't. You don't want Israel to be as committed as the PA. Do you really want the IDF to act independently, like Fatah does? Do you want the Israelis to create a paramilitary group like Hamas that also operates outside the control of the government? I think not.

As long as the double standard continues, they will be no peace. It is not right, it is not fair, and it is not acting in good faith to break the cease-fire and then call for a new one when the heat comes down, blaming Israel for the failure the whole time.

If the Palestinian leadership really wants a cease-fire, they need to "have a discussion" Mafia-style with the leadership of Hamas, Fatah, Hezbollah, and all the other loon groups.

If they really want peace, they'll start by cleaning their own house.