Diplomats Talk; Terrorists Act

While the diplomats and political leaders continue talking about peace and complaining about how Israel's military actions are a threat to the peace talks, the Palestinian terrorists continue doing what they do best. Attacking Israel at every opportunity.

18 kassam rockets were fired at Israel today in a two-hour span.

That's on the heels of Olmert's statements that the Israeli military action against the terrorists in Gaza had produced results, which makes me wonder why Israel withheld taking significant military action against Gaza's terrorists as they fired hundreds of kassams and mortars over the past year. If the military action did its job and eliminated the terrorists, why wasn't this done sooner.

On the other hand, the terrorists continue to attack Israel, which makes me question why Israel continues to pursue peace talks with terrorists that seek Israel's destruction.

Fatah is no better than Hamas as I've repeatedly argued, and Hamas and Fatah are playing the diplomats for fools. Hamas wants Fatah to cancel the scheduled peace talks because of the Israeli military raids on Palestinian terrorists in Gaza. Abbas and his Fatah thugs complain about Israel's actions to defend itself against terrorism, while ignoring the rockets that fall on Israel.

UPDATE:
Welcome to another chapter of Israeli double standard time (all rights reserved to Meryl Yourish). The diplomats talk while the terrorists continue firing on Israel. They find fault with Israeli defensive actions, while ignoring the terrorists' continuing war against Israel.

Carl in Jerusalem notes that the mayor of Sderot, which has been the focus of the kassam and mortar attacks, has resigned in protest over the failure of the Israeli government to protect the citizens of the Israeli city from the incessant rocket attacks. He also notes the rocket attacks this morning and that there were reports on Israeli radio claiming that the Israeli military didn't take further actions in Gaza because they feared that such moves would threaten the life of Gilad Shalit.

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one. 250,000 people are threatened by the terrorist attacks given what we know about the current range of the terrorists' mortars and rockets. Taking half measures only emboldens the terrorists and reduces the security of all Israelis.

UPDATE:
So, the talks are underway, and the Palestinians are already looking to blame Israel for not giving away the farm.

The Palestinians have said the planned construction in the Har Homa neighborhood, along with Israeli military activity in the Gaza Strip, have threatened to undermine the new peace talks.

The Palestinian delegation "introduced the issue of Har Homa and expressed our outrage," said negotiator Saeb Erekat.

"We are coming to negotiate over Jerusalem and borders, and the dictation and facts on the ground continue," he added. "If you want to restore the credibility of the peace process, the Israeli government must revoke this order." He said there were no immediate plans to meet again.

If you want to restore credibility, you have to stop the rocket attacks, rescind and amend the Palestinian Charter which calls for Israel's destruction, adhere to the obligations under Oslo including the disarmament of militias operating in Gaza and West Bank (meaning Fatah, Hamas, and all their offshoots and alphabet terrorist groups), and to eliminate calls for incitement to violence against Israel in the Palestinian media on a near daily basis.

Those obligations get ignored or glossed over as the media and world opinion focuses on Israel's need to give away still more territory to terrorist groups that seek Israel's destruction.