Ha'aretz (Israel) : "They'll give and they won't get" par Akiva Eldar

Last update - 05:39 17/08/2009    


They'll give and they won't get  

By Akiva Eldar  

The soldier at the Qalandiyah checkpoint gave a bored look at the car with the Israeli license plates. No one asked for documents or passes. Ten minutes later we were in the heart of Ramallah, the capital of the Palestinian Authority. The security forces obviously know there is no cause for concern. Nowadays Tel Aviv's beaches are more dangerous than the West Bank's cities. According to statistics from the Prime Minister's Office, more Israelis have been murdered in the past month in Israel than those murdered since January 2007 in the territory of the PA. The Jewish army's work in the territories we still call "Judea and Samaria" is done by non-Jews: Arab police, American instructors, European money. How has Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman put it? Paradise.

Over the years, suicide bombings spearheaded the political and media struggle against the Oslo process ("don't give them guns"). Although the number of terror attacks has declined despite the increase in the number of settlers (from 110,000 when the Oslo Accords were signed in September 1993 to 300,000 today, not including East Jerusalem) - terrorism continues to horrify us. Although at the height of the campaigns against Palestinians in Gaza, Ramallah was the quietest place in the region, the Qassams from Gaza were.............................
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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1107989.html


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