The Roadmap to Peace

From Little Green Footballs comes this story: bq. The latest report on Palestinian Arab Violations of Roadmap contains an eye-opening statistic: bq. During the first 38 weeks since the Road Map was issued, there have been a total of at least 954 Palestinian Arab terrorist attacks or attempted attacks, in which 140 people were murdered and 743 wounded. (Emphasis mine) From the report linked: bq. On June 24, 2002, President Bush set forth the conditions that the Palestinian Arabs must fulfill in order to merit U.S. support for the creation of a Palestinian Arab state. Among the major obligations are that the Palestinian Arabs must "dismantle the terrorist infrastructure," "end incitement," "elect new leaders not compromised by terror," and unequivocally embrace democracy and free market economics. None of those conditions were fulfilled. And more: bq. The PA's official "Palestine Media Center" reported on January 15, 2004 that PA Foreign Minister Nabil Sha'ath said the PA "is capable to stop all anti-Israeli attacks provided the Israelis reciprocate in kind." In fact, the Road Map requires the PA to stop all attacks regardless of Israeli "reciprocation." Despite that requirement, attacks continued: The article is fairly long, citing detail by detail, week by week but it is damning to those who look at terrorism as a few isolated events.