Peloni: The PA was created from a terrorist organization by a renowned terrorist. His successor was himself a terrorist, and remains so to this day, and doesn’t disguise this fact with his public patronage of terror on the streets of Israel and abroad, many of which are conducted by members of his own security forces. Moderate allies are not to be found in the ranks of terrorists, and if nothing else could be learned by the folly which followed Oslo, this surely should be clear by now. This was in fact one of the most beguiling aspects of the old conception, and it should not survive in any way or to take any part in the what comes to be the new conception.
Calculations based on body counts don’t tell the whole story as to whether terrorism is increasing or decreasing.
Moshe Phillips
By U.S. Department of State – https://www.flickr.com/photos/9364837@N06/53313240267/, Public Domain
A prominent Washington think tank analyst has added up various terrorism statistics to “prove” that a Palestinian Arab state might not be such a bad idea after all. The problem is that his math is all wrong.
Writing in Mosaic this week, Robert Satloff of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy implores Israel not to give up on the Palestinian statehood idea. Because, he says, the math shows that having the Palestinian Authority around has reduced terrorism.
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