Friday November 2, 2007

I've Been Thinking:

Israel discovered seven secret smuggling tunnels in Gaza yesterday.
The tunnels are used for smuggling arms and illegal cash into Gaza.

The weapons - guns, ammo, rockets - are needed for a two-fold purpose:
to attack Israel and to weaken Fatah.
the money is used to buy more weapons and to pay salaries and bribes.

Tunnels like the ones just discovered by Israel are flourishing throughout Gaza.
At the same time, Israel and the Palestinians are embarking on plans to forge ahead and make peace.
The pieces just don't fit together.
The ramifications of this discovery are lost on the US Secretary of State and on her new, unofficial, advisor Jimmy Carter.

Condi Rice and Jimmy Carter truly and honestly believe that by creating more political Palestinian power the problem of Palestinian security will improve.
Nothing is further from the truth.
This concept was proven wrong before and will be proven wrong again.

Security is a sine qua non on the peace front.
If the Palestinians cannot prove that they can control terror and keep the peace on the street now, today, it is pure folly to think that they will be able to keep the peace a week or even a month after a treaty is signed with Israel.

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