When did the Palestinians lose the war? [View All]

The Palestinians may soon become the first side to lose the same war twice.

At the outset of the uprising, it seemed that the Palestinians couldn't lose - and did.

Now, the problem may be that the Palestinians cannot seem to find a way to win. In fact, they may not have one left.

It depends, in no small part, on terrorism. Specifically, it depends on the ability of Hamas and the Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs to resist the temptation to resume suicide terrorism in the heart of Israeli cities.

It also depends on Qassams. Qassams and Katyushas and whatever else the Islamic Jihad, urged on by Iran, may be tinkering with in some Gaza basement. It depends on whether they continue to fire them from the ruins of settlements we evacuated, whether they continue to target civilian populations within the Green Line.

That is, it depends on whether it continues to be worth it to the Palestinians to squander whatever sentiment still exists in Israel for giving back any land to the Palestinians.

It may already be too late. The damage to the Palestinian cause may already be irreversible. In six years of the most self-destructive rebellion in memory, the Palestinians in general and Yasser Arafat in particular, literally blew to pieces the phenomenal and even one-sided sympathy they enjoyed in the world at large.