The Cockroaches Scurry From The Light

One of the advantages of sitting in the tent is that I get to listen to the AM radio. Today, while listening, I caught a quick blurb about a terrorist attack in Gaza that killed three American bodyguards.

All of the usual suspects realize that this is just about the worst possible situation event that could have happened. Arafat has referred to it as an "awful crime." Hamas and Hezbollah have both tried to distance themselves as much as possible, claiming that they do not deliberately attack Americans.

Well of course they're going to distance themselves from this. Of course they're go to deplore the attack. Someone, I think it was one of the PA ministers, complained that this attack was going to set back the Palestinian cause significantly. And they're right. It will set back the cause.

The Americans have been leaning on Israel for years. We have tried to force Israel to act contrary to their own interest. We have encouraged Israel to deliberately endanger themselves in the name of "peace." In the fight for the Palestinian State, America has been the most effective friend that the Palestinian clan has had. We have been more effective than the Soviet Union, more effective than Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Jordan, and even more effective than the EU. We have accomplished more than any of the wars of Arab aggression, more than any of the terrorist attacks, and more than any of the trite anti-Israeli embargoes being conducted by the Arabs or their friends.

To attack us would be to attack the only real, effective friend that the Palestinian people. To attack us or inflame us would be to unleash the full, unrestrained fury of the IDF on the terrorists. A deliberate attack on us would leave as the greatest Palestinian weapon the dreaded EU scowl of disapproval. The Palestinian Statehood movement would become as relevant as the Mexican Separatists Of The Greater Southern Region Of Northern South Dakota Statehood movement.

Given all that, is it any wonder that Arafat and the "charitable" organizations of Palestine are running scared from this? They know that this is the worst of all possible worlds for them. They know that fessing up would mean the end of their attempts at legitimization.

To the total number of dead in the conflict, we now add three more Americans, deliberately murdered. At what point will the Americans decide "enough is enough?" Israel has already decided it and is ready to take decisive action. Are we?