Terror Is the Only Way Open to the Palestinians
The way of terror is the only way open to the Palestinians to fight for their future. The way of terror is the only way for them to remind Israel, the Arab states and the world of their existence. They have no other way. Israel has taught them this. If they don’t use violence, everyone will forget about them.
This is not hypothetical speculation, this has been proven in reality, again and again. When they are quiet, interest in their cause evaporates and fades from the agenda of Israel and the rest of the world.
Look what happens to Gaza between the rocket barrages. Who pays any attention to it? Who cares about it? Everyone already wants to forget about the Palestinians’ existence. People are tired of hearing about Palestinian suffering, and the quiet makes this possible.
Only when the bullets fly, the knives strike and the rockets boom do people remember that there is another people here with a terrible problem that must be resolved. The conclusion is harsh and terrifying: Only through terrorism will they be remembered, only through terrorism will they possibly obtain something.
One thing is certain: If they put down their weapons, they are doomed to become the Native Americans of the Middle East – a forgotten minority whose cause has been forever extinguished.
One can argue about the legitimacy of Palestinian terror and its definition: Who kills more and who is more brutal, Israel or them.
In recent weeks, we’ve reported here about a Palestinian student who went out for a hike and was shot to death in the head, about a boy who held up a Molotov cocktail in front of a 20-meter-high wall and was shot to death in the back, about a Palestinian man who was returning from a workout when soldiers fired 31 bullets at his car, and about a teen who was fleeing for his life from Border Police officers who fired 12 bullets at him and killed him. Isn’t this terror too? How is it different from Bnei Brak?
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Violence is always brutal and immoral: the violence of the terrorists who fire indiscriminately at innocent passersby and the state-sanctioned uniformed violence against Palestinians, including innocent ones, as a matter of routine.
Then they got the Sde Boker summit. Six foreign ministers all telling them: Your fate doesn’t interest us. There are more urgent matters and more important interests.
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