Intensifications

The Palestinian war against Israel continues to intensify. 22 more kassams slammed into Israel today, and there's no sign that the terrorists will slacken off their attacks. Indeed, the Israelis discovered missile silos in Gaza that would enable the terrorists to fire their rockets or mortars from more protected areas, rather than open fields. The PRC, which is comprised of both Hamas and Fatah thugs, took credit for some of the attacks. They're also suggesting that Sderot evacuate, even though it is fully within Israel's borders. The terrorists once again show that their intention isn't to create a two-state solution, but to eliminate Israel and supplant it with a terrorist regime.

Those attacks continue to inflict casualties on Israelis.

The Jerusalem Post writes that Israel may consider going after the lead terrorists in Hamas. What took them so long? Or, are the Israelis more concerned with world opinion than they are with protecting their citizens from incessant attacks by a terrorist group dedicated to spreading mischief and mayhem wherever it goes? Indeed, the Egyptians aren't too comfortable with the idea of Gazans buying land in the Sinai (which further begs the question of how poor downtrodden Gazans could afford to buy land there in quantities that would make the Egyptians nervous).

The Egyptians are also nervous that Hamas may go after Egyptians and kidnap them for ransoms.

The US, for its part, continues to tell Israel not to make things worse. Right. Accepting dozens of rockets fired at it daily is a situation that the US would tolerate if its neighbors were doing what Hamas, Fatah, and the other terrorist groups were doing? I didn't think so.

The US needs to let Israel defend itself and go after the terrorists in the strongest possible terms. The terrorists understand force, and know that Israel is far too restrained, both by the US and by its weak leadership, to mount a credible deterrent against the terrorists, so the terrorists are emboldened.