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Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=6793
PA Has Neither Desire or Capability to Deal with Extremism
(Israel Hayom) Zvika Fogel - Israel finds itself in the eye of the Islamic storm, surrounded by Arab countries going through revolutions and internal strife. Neighboring countries have become fertile ground for terrorist groups that seek to conduct attacks against the Jews. The more than one hundred terror incidents in the West Bank each month are definitive proof that even when we choose the path of reconciliation and compromise, there remains on the ground an ongoing extremist ideological belief among the Palestinians against our right to live here. The Palestinian Authority, with which we conduct negotiations about coexistence, does not have the desire or capability to deal with extremism among its people. Brig.-Gen. (res.) Zvika Fogel is a former head of the IDF Southern Command.