The first terror attack occurring in an area where checkpoints were removed resulted in the death of the terrorist.
A Palestinian who was trying to stab two Israeli hitchhikers was shot dead by one of his intended victims.
One of the hitchhikers Monday near the West Bank town of Shiloh used his gun to shoot the assailant, who was carrying a seven-inch knife. The attacker was pronounced dead at the hitchhiking stand, Ynet reported.
The hitchhikers were 30 and 15.
Two checkpoints around the West Bank town of Jericho, near Shiloh, were removed Monday as part of an agreement reached Sunday between Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salaam Fayad during a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Jerusalem, The Associated Press reported.
Cause and effect? Yeah, I’m thinking.
By the way, check this out: Rice was “amazed” at Israeli concessions.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was said to be “amazed” by the Israeli gestures promised to the Palestinian Authority on Sunday, an Israeli source reported following a three-way meeting between the secretary, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad.
Ynet has learned that the series of gestures include the establishment of a city or several neighborhoods near the West Bank city of Ramallah, which would be financed by a Jordanian businessman.
I’ll be amazed if the Palestinians use this for anything other than more terror.
When—WHEN is Israel going to say “Enough!” to Ehud Olmert?
Aww, poor terrorist…
He choose…. Poorly.
Good to see a properly armed society triumph over evil.
Though this just means the next one will use a bomb instead of a knife. Which we ALL know is coming anyways.
Sounds like a little “Shock and Awe” is in order. Perhaps “evacuating” Gaza isn’t such a bad idea. As I’ve mentioned in another thread, a Government that fails to protect it’s citizens is just as culpable as the perpetrators of terrorism. *Some* Americans learned a valuable lesson about capitulation on 9/11. (Others didn’t…) Appeasement isn’t a strategy, as Neville Chamberlain and Jimmy Carter proved, it’s nothing more than surrender. I’m not Jewish, I’m not Israeli, but it angers me to the very center of my being that innocent civilians are being subjected to endless terror while their leftist Government sits on their hands and offers more and more “concessions.” The Muslims (make no mistake who the racist degenerates are) won’t stop until they destroy Israel, and apparently, neither will Olmert.
Robert
Here are the pictures: http://myrightword.blogspot.com/2008/03/shiloh-junction-incident-aftermath.html