Twisted Impulses
Suffer the aggrieved, the haters, the anger-mongers, the Jew haters, the impotent impostors of righteousness to enter the city holy to Jews and wreak havoc there in the name of the Palestinian "struggle" against legitimate statehood. For that's what it amounts to; their original denial of the potential for statehood in 1948 has bloomed into the deadly ambition to continue denying themselves a state of their own.Continued and continual attacks on the legitimate State of Israel merely sets back the potential to achieve a Palestinian state. And perhaps that's the real agenda, recognized by some, but by no means all Palestinians. It's clear enough from the insider comments by the Palestinian Authority spokespeople, including Mahmoud Abbas, that a greater agenda for a greater Palestinian state is what's aspired to.
The first-offered division of the geographic area was rejected, and continues to be rejected, even in its modern form, as a legitimate state alongside that of a neighbour's. Israel managed to solve the problem of suicide bombings planned and undertaken by Palestinian "freedom fighters" entering the country from the West Bank and Gaza by constructing a protective wall. Opening the opportunity for recruitment among Israeli Arabs to offer themselves as martyrs.
With this second bulldozer attack by an Israeli Palestinian construction worker, other Palestinians who work in the country in the construction industry can now understandably anticipate that their jobs may be forfeit, if not at the very least, considerably constrained in latitude. The question is will their ire be directed against the government, anxious to protect its people, or toward the perpetrators of this social injustice?
It would be heartening and comforting to be able to take at face value the comments of Mahmoud Abbas: "I condemn terrorist attacks with the greatest firmness, and I hope for the quick recovery of those who were hurt", if it were not for the unfortunate fact that this was a statement made for the purpose of Western consumption. Internal comments speak otherwise, as evidenced by his recent fervid support for the murderers who were returned to Hezbollah.
The larger question being how can a country yearning for a cessation of hostilities, and willing to apply itself to living peacefully and trustingly with a neighbour which has proven time and again to be untrustworthily given to conflict in its ongoing territorial ambitions surrender to the belief that an avowed terror-supporter is their sole partner in the search for a peaceful solution to their mutual conflict?
Labels: Israel, Political Realities, Terrorism
posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, July 23, 2008
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