Palestinian Terrorists Threaten More Attacks If Attacked Themselves

The wonderful cycle of violence makes its return to the vernacular. Palestinian terrorists have fired more than 3,500 rockets at Israel from Gaza since 2005. They've increased their attacks and have fired dozens of rockets and mortars at Israel in just the past week, injuring several Israelis, including children.

Israel has responded with airstrikes against the very terrorists who have launched these attacks. Twelve terrorists have been dispatched by the Israelis, prompting the terrorist groups to assert that such attacks will result in more attacks against Israel.

Islamic Jihad is warning its thugs to turn off their cellphones because the Israelis have apparently managed to trace their use and hone in on the terrorist leaders, which gives new meaning to the phrase "reach out and touch someone." They're also threatening further attacks.

All this comes as the West ponies up billions for the Palestinian Authority even as there is absolutely no guarantee that the money will bolster moderates within the PA.

The security situation in Gaza is nonexistent. The terrorists have free reign to attack Israel and Hamas is heavily involved in such attacks.

UPDATE:
This article runs down which Islamic Jihad terrorists can now claim martrydom on their resumes:

Israeli aircraft launched an assault on the radical Islamic Jihad organization from the skies over Gaza, killing eight of the organization's men in three fiery strikes overnight. Early Tuesday, an Israeli air-to-ground missile killed three Islamic Jihad gunmen, including a senior commander, as they emerged from morning prayers at a northern Gaza mosque. That attack came on the heels of a pair of airstrikes after nightfall Monday. Israeli aircraft blasted two cars in Gaza City, killing five Islamic Jihad militants, including the group's overall commander in Gaza and the West Bank and a master rocket maker.

Early Tuesday, the group also announced that its commander in the northern West Bank had been killed by an undercover Israeli unit. But the Israeli military, which usually takes responsibility for such operations, said it had no knowledge of the incident.

The target of the first Israeli airstrike in Gaza City late Monday was Majed Harazin, a senior Islamic Jihad militant in charge of rocket squads that have been firing at Israel, the military said.

Islamic Jihad spokesman Khaled el-Batch confirmed that Harazin was killed in the first attack. He was the top Islamic Jihad commander for both the West Bank and Gaza, the group said, and he rarely traveled in vehicles for fear of an Israeli airstrike. Another militant was killed and a third critically wounded in the airstrike, hospital officials said.

The terrorists are getting exactly what they deserve.

UPDATE:
It's compare and contrast time. When Palestinian terrorist fire off their rockets and mortars at Israel, they couldn't care less what they hit, so long as Israelis get injured or are murdered.

When Israel conducts its attacks against Palestinian terrorists, they do so with not only extreme caution but with an eye to minimizing collateral damage - to civilians in the area. They targeted this particular terrorist group when no others were in the immediate vicinity - leaving only the terrorists themselves to die.

UPDATE:
As predicted, the terrorists have fired salvos of rockets and mortars at Israel. Another day, another kassam and mortar attack by Palestinian terrorists. Of course, the terrorists claim this is in retaliation for killing terrorist leaders.

Israel is simply giving the terrorists what they want. They want martyrdom? They're getting it in spades, but now we find out that the terrorist leaders aren't that interested in martyrdom - they're interested in their followers becoming martyrs for the cause.

Israel is also engaging in self defense, which is something the Palestinian terrorists are not doing - those terrorists are engaging in a war with Israel with the means at their disposal. Israel still will not unleash hell on Hamas, who so richly deserves such treatment, especially for the way they've held Gilad Shalit for more than a year and strung along the Shalit family for more than a year, to say nothing of how they're using Shalit as a shield against attacks against Hamas thugs who are responsible for plotting mayhem and violence against Israel and demands for Israel to release Palestinians who are in Israeli jails.