Just read about today’s
Bat
Mitzvah Massacre. The killer murdered the security guard and
then charged into the main hall armed with guns and grenades. He ended up killing
five more civilians, including the little girl’s grandfather. This heroic act of
resistance was apparently in retaliation for the assassination of Raed al-Karmi.
Karmi was the leader of a terrorist cell associated with
Arafat’s Fatah faction — he was wanted by Israel for, among other things,
kidnapping and murdering two Jewish restaurant owners.

I don’t see what Fatah hopes to accomplish with this — other than
making it increasingly obvious that, as Yossi
Klein Halevi states in this week’s
TNR, “to demand that Arafat dismantle
Palestine’s terrorist infrastructure is absurd… the biggest terrorist
infrastructure in the PA is the PA itself.”

For many years, I believed that if only things would quiet down long enough to
establish a Palestinian state, peace would take hold. But after these last
few months… what evidence is there that a full-fledged
Palestinian nation would do anything other than simply kill more Israelis, faster?
How is Israel supposed to keep Katushya rockets out of terrorist hands once
it loses control of the borders? No, I’ve realized that I was wrong, and that
Hamas is right:
there will never be peace in Israel. Not this century.