Ah, Those Moderates in Fatah...

For all you who think Fatah is so great and moderate and that they no longer call for the destruction of Israel, Arutz 7 published this article today, in which the IDF (Israel Defence Force, aka Tzaha"l) engaged in heavy fighting not in Gaza (though they did that too and knocked off about a dozen terrorists), but in the Shomron city of Shechem (Nablus), where

Heavy fighting took place overnight in Judea and Samaria, with IDF forces searching parts of Shechem, located 25 miles east of Herzilya, to catch wanted terrorists. The IDF waged anti-terror battles in Gaza as well.

Dozens of terrorists laid ambushes for soldiers along the narrow roads of the PA-controlled city of Shechem. Three IDF soldiers were moderately wounded by a bomb and shooting attack in Shechem. They were airlifted to Beilinson hospital in Petach Tikva. Two others were shot and lightly wounded.

The IDF rounded up eight wanted terrorists overnight. A Fatah terrorist was arrested in Shechem and four Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorists were caught near Ramallah. Three others were arrested in Bethlehem and Hevron.

As I said, so much for the "moderate" Fatah. Someone once mentioned the optimism and pragmatism of the Shalom Achshav (Peace Now) Movement and how they think land for peace will work. What they don't seem to get is when you reward terrorism, the terrorism simply becomes worse, as has happened in the past in the wake of the unfortunate Oslo Accords (for which, I might remind you, Arafat won the Nobel Peace Prize, which should have been revoked when he turned down final peace with Israel in 2001). It's like a child with bad behavior. If you reward bad behavior, the behavior becomes worse. Same with terrorists, even (or should I say especially) when those terrorists like to hide behind the guise of being a legitimate government.

Now, a solution, at one point, might have been to simply and completely wipe out all the terrorists, but with Palestinian children and society in general being brainwashed to believe the Jews are so terrible and all of us are deserving of nothing less than death, where does it end? Genocide is obviously not an option, nor one I would ever condone. That's just evil.

Perhaps Rabbi Kahane was correct when he advocated expulsion. Yes, I know Kach is considered to be a "terrorist" organization, which is the most idiotic thing I've ever heard. Someone out there spread rumors that Kach advocated killing off ALL the Palestinians, but this is something Rabbi Kahane opposed completely and was not part of the thinking of the Kach movement. Rabbi Kahane advocated expulsion to other Arab lands as a solution if the Arabs in Israel did not want to accept Israeli rule. And expulsion is no less than has happened to the Jews several times over the last 2000 years.

Palestinians: You don't like living under Israeli rule, go to Jordan, or Syria, or any other number of Arab countries. Remember, Jordan was created for YOU, and when Jordan attacked Israel in 1967, Israel conquered land. You don't like it? Take it up with the Jordanian government.