Doh!….

Qais Abu Leila, a member of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, said the Hizbullah rocket attacks had highlighted the futility of Palestinian attempt to build home-made rockets. “Now it is finally clear to everyone that these rockets do more damage to Palestinians than Israelis,” he said.
the guardian

There is no shortage of intelligence in the Palestinian Authority. But the culture of resistance has kept that intelligence in a bunker. The gunmen don’t want to hear that their tactics are causing more grief for the Palis than the Israelis. After all, Hamas and Hezbollah are not in the peace business - they are in the terror business.

Beating the hell out of both groups is pretty much the only way that the inherent intelligence of the Palestinians will be allowed to work for peace rather than some weird fantasy of Israel’s elimination.

Too bad so many poeple had to die and be injured for this point to be made.

Update: it will be interesting to see what the commentors over at the Zerb’s make of this. It has not been a good war for the left so far.

Written by jay on July 26th, 2006 with 2 comments.
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Ooopps…

“The truth is _ let me say this clearly _ we didn’t even expect (this) response…. that (Israel) would exploit this operation for this big war against us,” said Komati.

He said Hezbollah had expected “the usual, limited response” from Israel to the July 12 cross-border raid, in which three Israelis were killed.

In the past, he said, Israeli responses to Hezbollah actions included sending commandos into Lebanon to seize Hezbollah officials or briefly targeting specific Hezbollah strongholds.
ap

Yup, if you twist the dragon’s tail long enough you’re going to get burned. The question is not if but when.

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