These Are Partners For Peace?

The Palestinian Authority declares that any Palestinian selling land to Israelis will be subject to the death penalty.

The latest warning was issued on Wednesday by the Chief [Islamic] Judge of the Palestinian Authority, Sheikh Tayseer Rajab Tamimi, who reminded the Palestinians of an existing fatwa [religious decree] than bans them from selling property to Jews.

Sheikh Tamimi's warning came in response to reports that Jewish businessmen from the US had purchased 20 dunams of land from Palestinians on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.

Warning the Palestinians against engaging in "suspicious real estate deeds," the religious leader said that according to Islamic teachings it was a "grave sin" to sell houses and lands to Jews.

The Palestinian Authority are the so-called moderates, and they're busy using Islamic law to justify threatening all Palestinians into avoiding any real estate sales to Jews because it would result in the death penalty.

At the same time, Hamas is congratulating a terrorist for butchering a 16-year old Israeli child with an axe and seriously injuring a 7-year old. The Hamas thugs are saying this is a natural result of the occupation. Axe murdering is a natural result of occupation? Really?

The terrorist who carried out the axe attack had lust to kill in his eyes according to an eyewitness who attempted to stop the terrorist from fleeing, but was unsuccessful. Bat Ayin residents have refused to build security fences around their community on the West Bank, despite the terrorist threats. Somehow, I don't think they are going to reconsider, but this does tend to show that building the fences does thwart terror attacks. Residents also blamed Defense Minister Ehud Barak for the attack since he's taken down checkpoints and eased restrictions for Palestinian travel through Israeli territory. They have a point.

Hamas shows no sign of stopping their war with Israel, and consider the smuggling of arms into Gaza a natural right. Well, I hate to break it to Hamas, but Israel has an inalienable right to smash Hamas for every single attack on Israel as a sovereign nation under attack from a regime that seeks it's destruction with every utterance and every act.

Then again, smuggling of arms isn't confined to Hamas. Apparently the Palestinian Authority, which gets much of its arms from the US, Israelis, and the Europeans, has to smuggle weapons in as well, although I think that is more for resale on the black market than as part of the overall effort to destroy Israel.

Meanwhile, Syria and Hizbullah are demanding that Israel give up the Golan Heights, and that it will be in their hands, and it doesn't have to be a peaceful transfer.

"There is no escape from the liberation of the Golan," Assad said in an interview published by the Qatari newspaper A-Sharq. "Either through peace or through war."

"When a citizen loses hope, he turns towards resistance in one form or another," Assad added.

The Syrian president also defiantly defended his country's relationship with Hizbullah, and said that although Israel insists the ties must be severed for peace to materialize, Damascus would continue supporting the group.

"Hizbullah has an issue with Israel and we have the same issue," Assad said in an interview published on Thursday by the Kuwait newspaper a-Sharq. "We therefore support the organization."

"We are speaking about a national organization with a religious agenda that acts in the framework of the Lebanese homeland," he said. "We see here a national party. It is therefore natural that we have a relationship with it."

Syria reiterates that it will continue supporting Hizbullah, which further shows the folly of American foreign policy efforts under the Obama Administration to stop Syria's support for terrorist groups that have American blood on their hands (Hizbullah was behind the 1983 Marine Barracks bombing and numerous other attacks in the region that resulted in American casualties, and Syrian support for Iraqi insurgents had led to the deaths of numerous American soldiers in Iraq).

UPDATE:
Israeli security is engaging in a massive manhunt to capture the terrorist who killed 13 year old Shlomo Nativ and wounded a 7-year-old.

Israeli politicians are blaming new Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for the attack because he picked a right winger for his foreign minister. Sorry, but that doesn't wash. Terrorists have been attacking Israelis for years - regardless of who was in charge. The only people to blame for the attacks are the terrorists and those who support him - the Palestinian terror groups who seek nothing short of Israel's destruction and who revel in the murder of Israeli kids.

UPDATE:
Via the Israeli Consulate Twitter, Iran is standing behind Syria's announcement to support Hizbullah and the efforts to end Israel's control over the Golan Heights. That really isn't anything new given Iran's support to both Hizbullah and Syria.

UPDATE:
Ynet reports that the IDF may have surrounded a home in the West Bank where they think the terrorist is holed up.