Serious Consequences
Serious consequences is what we see as fall-out from unbridled hate and the ongoing determination to wreak havoc, through revenge killing and terrorism, when those who are assaulted strike back. Then the serious consequences of the attacks bring destruction and death to those so eager to deliver it to others.And this is a spiralling, unstoppable circuit, with a beginning but no end in sight.
While ostensible peace talks feebly spark an attempt to reach a compromise between Israel and the Palestinian Authority there is no action on the part of the PA to enthuse its members in its purported mission of peace. Instead, all the signals are there issued by the PA to its restively bitter terror factions to continue their mission to destabilize the peace effort by assaulting the population of Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is squeezed relentlessly between the legitimate need for security for his country and his people and the need to sue for peace. The will is there, the way is not. Because of the ongoing rocket attacks across the border, terrorizing Israelis, the compulsion is there to react, to strike, to wage a low-grade war to halt attacks.
The people of Sderot, continually targeted, plead with the prime minister to meet the threat of Hamas and PA terrorists. They ask the government to provide them with safe rooms, to fortify their homes. Parents describe their small children dropping to the ground, covering their heads at the first sound of the rocket alert siren. Residents spend the night in shelters.
Their government responds as it can, conducting raids of reprisal against the terror groups.
In the process of doing so, producing desired results in the destruction of both Fatah-affiliated and Hamas terrorists. And during that same process, accidentally causing the deaths of other, innocent Palestinians, among them women and children.
Much as happened when an Israeli Air Force missile struck a Hamas 4-story interior ministry office resulting in a Palestinian woman killed and 15 others injured. A second Israeli air strike soon afterward damaged Hamas's naval headquarters in central Gaza, while the IDF opened fire at the northern town of Beit Hanoun to attempt to stop rockets.
And it's not only on the borders of Gaza that terror activities attempt to destroy Israel's infrastructure and haunt its populace. The General Security Services apprehended a terror plan to plant explosives along train tracks running between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. As well, 5 PA terrorists were arrested, IDF soldiers having discovered a bomb-making laboratory and explosives in Nehalim, just south of Jerusalem.
The ongoing attacks, the attempted carnage, reflects a total failure on the part of the Palestinian Authority to exert itself to control its military wings, while at the same time PA President Mahmoud Abbas condemns Israeli responses to Gaza rocket barrages, complaining that the arrests of insurgents represents "a slap in the face" to the peace efforts.
He, alongside his Palestine Liberation Organization cohorts speak tersely of "serious consequences" resulting from the situation they have themselves foisted upon the urgency of attempted peace talks.
Labels: Israel, Troublespots
posted by Pieface @ Friday, January 18, 2008
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