Hold the presses! The Palestinian Authority has released a report concluding that the terrorist attacks by Hamas and Islamic Jihad over the past few years have not been aimed at Israel. Instead, says the report, their clear goal has been the destruction of (wait for it) the "peace process," and, in its wake, the PA itself.
Now, comforting as it may be to "know" that the real targets of those attacks aren't the innocent men, women and children who are murdered and mangled but rather the abstract and elusive concept of peace itself, and obvious as it may be that, yes, derailing progress toward any acceptance of Israel's right to exist is a top terrorist priority, nevertheless, the following question remains:
If the PA really believes that the number one goal of Hamas and Islamic Jihad is destruction of the PA, why isn't the number one goal of the PA to dismantle those groups? It's a mystery.
Shabbat Shalom.
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Update: I note that Haggai had some very interesting thoughts on this, from an entirely different angle, yesterday.
