Thursday, July 06, 2006

Gaza reveals Palestinian agenda

We're posting very selectively here at CIT right now, but this one deserves notice in any circumstance.

Charles Krauthammer has an essay in next week's Time magazine which is stunning in it's simple hypothesis: The Israelis vacated Gaza about a year ago. What have the Palestinians done in that time? Built schools? Laid the foundations of a functioning society? Gone peacefully about their lives? No, no, and no.

Instead of these noble pursuits, Palestinians in Gaza have launched over 1,000 rockets into Israel (across the pre-1967 border, no less), dug tunnels under the border to facilitate ambushes and kidnappings, and generally kept up the violence as if nothing had occurred to deter it.

Please stop insisting the Palestinians just want their own, peaceful state in which they intend to raise their children and live their lives.

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