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Killing Little Girls

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.

Posted by Evan Goer on Jan. 17, 2002 at 11:05 AM