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.
Posted by DaveH at January 21, 2004 11:18 AM