Peace talks or target practice?

September 2, 2010 - 11:22 AM by

Security personnel inspect the car containing four Israelis which was bombarded with bullets on Tuesday night near Kiryat Arba. (AP)

A morbid comment by a friend after the last two consecutive days of drive-by shootings of Israelis by Palestinians, which have left four Israelis dead – ‘you can always tell when peace talks are starting because Israelis start dying.’

It’s horrible, but unfortunately true. I think everyone is starting to remember how previous waves of terror began – a shooting here, a bus bomb there, and before you know it, it’s an everyday thing.

I’m getting on a bus in a few hours, and for the first time in years, I may be looking around and checking out the passengers getting on, doing my own personal profile checking.

I guess the big difference this time, though, is the fact that we have a security barrier which is supposedly preventing potential suicide bombers from arriving at their destination, and the facts that the cooperation we’re getting from the Palestinian security forces are helping to prevent and catch terror acts before they happen. But not always, as the last two nights have tragically shown.

I, like most Israelis who want the peace talks beginning today in Washington to succeed, want to believe Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas when he said that Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the other Palestinian terror rejectionist groups are Israel and the Palestinian Authority’s common enemy.

But if all Israelis, and not just settlers (who for some, incomprehensibly, don’t count as they are bringing it on themselves by living in the West Bank) are now going to be open targets for the guns and bombs of terrorists, it’s clear that the peace attempts in Washington are going to fail miserably. And our Palestinian neighbors will only have themselves to blame when their statehood once again moves beyond their reach.

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2 Comments on Peace talks or target practice?

  1. David-Joe on Fri, Sep 3rd 2010 1:37 AM

    2. You want to believe – well its a good thing that all belief requires is the will to so so. No evidence required and emotion.

    Hamas want peace? What are people smoking?

    And once again America, the nation that LOVES to tell others – especially Israel – what to do when they themselves would not follow their own advice is on the “Mid-East peace bandwagon”. Their president must be in trouble ……

    Let me ask the most powerful country in the world that enjoys bullying Israel – you want us to negotiate with those who seek our destruction?

    They why do YOU not negotiate with Al Quaida? Why do YOU not negotiate with Iran? Why do YOU not negotiate with the Taliban?

    America the Hypocrite.

  2. David-Joe on Fri, Sep 3rd 2010 1:39 AM

    3. That should read Abbas not Hamas etc……

    For he is no different to that evil incarnation of excrement, Yassir Arafat.

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