Where we went wrong
Giulio Meotti has a reminder for Israelis about where we started to lose the battle against terrorism. The Israeli strategy on terrorism began to fail when Rabin and Peres cut a deal with Arafat and when Israel adopted a defensive strategy of retreating behind walls. It began to fail when the misbegotten, ill-fated Oslo peace accord led directly to the suicide-bomb slaughter of Israelis, young and old. Since Israel allowed the PLO and its terror armies to move their bases from Tunis to Judea, Samaria, and Gaza in 1994, nearly 2,000 Israeli families have involuntarily paid the ultimate price in the “peace process.” The Shalit deal is a moral defeat most especially for these families of the victims of terrorism: Israel just cancelled more than 900 life sentences to embrace again one soldier. Meir Schijveschuurder, who lost his parents and three of his siblings in the suicide bombing in the Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem in 2001, yesterday declared against the deal: “We feel like a man who woke up in Germany a day after World War II.”The victory of seeing Gilad Shalit come home last week is Pyrrhic at best.
I can still hear Yitzchak Rabin referring to all those Israelis killed in terror attacks in 1993-94 as korbanot hashalom (sacrifices for peace) as if dying in that way, God forbid, has a nobility to it. It doesn't.
Labels: terrorists for Gilad trade, Yitzchak Rabin
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:19 AM
1 Comments:
That is paganism. The moment Rabin crossed that line, he was doomed.
As is any one who makes a covenant with death.
Now many more people have to die in Israel, G-d forbid, before its leaders finally do get it?
What could go wrong indeed
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