The King of Jordan says that Israel must make a choice:

Jordan’s King Abdullah II said Friday that Israel must choose between the mentality of “Israel the fortress” or “living in peace and security with its neighbors.”

Nowhere in the article does it point out that the “fortress mentality” was brought upon by the thousands of terror attacks Israel has suffered since before her inception. Yes, before. And prior to the “occupation,” also.

The Middle East faces “either the choice of peace or the choice of chaos, violence and destruction,” Abdullah said in a rare television interview.

[...] But, the king added, “the principle problem in the region is the Palestinian issue and, if it is not solved, it will be impossible to solve the other problems.”

“The main responsibility (for achieving peace) lies with Israel, which must choose either to remain a prisoner of the mentality of ‘Israel the fortress’ or to live in peace and stability with its neighbors,” he said.

It is not Israel that chooses to withdraw behind fortress walls. It is the Arabs who refuse to make peace with Israel, and who flog the palestinian issue, that are the problem. When Syria, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Arabs and Muslims across the world—including Jordan—continue to fund and supply the terrorists who murder Israelis, Israel must respond in kind. Defense isn’t an option. It is a requirement, to keep from being murdered in their schools, on their buses, in pizza parlors and markets, in restaurants and shops, and in their beds.

Place the blame where it belongs, Abdullah: On the murderers, not on those who defend themselves from murder.

Yesterday, the ISM joined other “internationals” in celebrating the 38th anniversary of the founding of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

This Friday the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine will celebrate its 38th anniversary in the village of Bil’in. Speeches will be held in the village after midday prayers before the march to the Apartheid Wall, which has annexed over 60% of the village’s land for the settlement of Mod’in Elit and its ongoing expansion. Two months ago the Fateh party held its 42nd anniversary celebration at the weekly Bil’in protest.

The ISM “internationals” like to pretend they are a nonviolent movement:

The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) is a Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land using nonviolent, direct-action methods and principles. Founded by a small group of activists in August, 2001, ISM aims to support and strengthen the Palestinian popular resistance by providing the Palestinian people with two resources, international protection and a voice with which to nonviolently resist an overwhelming military occupation force.

But they don’t tell you anything at all about the history of the DFLP. It is a terror organization responsible for two cold-blooded massacres of schoolchildren—one in a school, the other in a bus. Commenter Alex Bensky posted this in Friday’s post about the “nonviolent” march which, as usual, turned violent as demonstrators threw stones at IDF soldiers.

I may have told this story before on the forum but, well, it’s worth telling again.

I was living in Israel at the time and the kibbutz tv had tape of the massacre on the evening news. I watched the soldier gather outside the school, heard the command to charge, heard firing, and watched the soldiers sprint towards the school as more firing was heard.

Something seemed amiss–I don’t mean slaughtering children, I mean something about what was going on seemed odd. It wasn’t until they showed the tape again that I figured it out:

As the soldiers were dashing towards the school you heard intense firing, but none of it was from the assaulting troops and there was no sign of shots at the soliders…none falling, no little clods of dirt kicked up. I finally got it: The firing was coming from inside the school but the Palestinians weren’t firing at the troops. With Israeli soliders attacking them, rather than defending themselves they were spraying the schoolchildren. Killing Israeli soldiers wasn’t the point; it was killing children. Which they did, more than two dozen.

And the internationalists memorialize and celebrate this. Every time you think they can’t get any more disgusting and vile, and every time you find out they can.

Not that the ISM gives a damn about that. Look around long enough on their website, and you’ll get ill from all the moral equivocating going on.

One last thing: From the mainstream media, you’d never guess that the vast majority of “protesters” at the fence these last two weeks were internationals. Only a handful of palestinians showed. But guess who got in the AP photos?

Here’s a hint: It wasn’t the internationals.