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August 27, 2003       Share:    

Source: http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/editorials/story.asp?id=7C144ADE-9F1D-45BE-9663-A62B20DB0430

Israel Defends Itself

(Ottawa Citizen) Editorial - Neither the respected UN envoy who died in the Baghdad attack, nor the many dedicated aid workers who perished with him, were Israeli or Jewish, so let's abandon the fiction that somehow it is Israel alone that animates the Islamists. Hamas helped carry out the Jerusalem attack. Evidently, a ceasefire as the Palestinians define it means they get to kill Israeli children and not have to answer for it. So the phony ceasefire is indeed over, in the sense that Israel has decided to reclaim its right to self-protection. The world has invested much hope in Mr. Abbas, but it is unclear whether he understands that suicide bombers will never be, can never be, the founding fathers of a Palestinian state.

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