Reply #21: Hmm... [View All]

Let's see... on the Roadmap To Peace, Israel took several steps it had committed to, the Palestinians took none. When Israel announced that the Roadmap seemed doomed to failure, out came the Geneva Accords. Israel released prisoners, suicide bombings increased.

Looks like Israel said "screw this" and started hitting BACK. Yassin got blowed up real good and Israel said "hey, Gaza, we're outta this toilet." Palestinian reaction? Lotsa seething, no real action.

One month later: several dozen thwarted suicide bombings (including one with a teenage boy), and one gets through. Same day: Rantisi gets blowed up real good.

(Aside: note the number of "others" who were NOT killed or injured when Yassin and Rantisi achieved their long-desired martyrdom. Israel knows how to kill, and how NOT to kill.)

Palestinian reaction: more seething, lots of waving of body parts.

I predict quite a few more thwarted suicide bombings, and a bit of a wait before Hamas gets another publicly announced leader. As several others have commented, you'd probably be safer being Spinal Tap's drummer than Hamas' leader.

J.