The AP doesn’t use quite the langue of this post title, but it’s close enough:
Israeli troops killed two senior Hamas militants in an early-morning raid in the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday, the Israeli military and Hamas officials said, raising tensions as peace talks remain stuck over Israeli settlements.
According to the AP, killing the terrorists who murdered four civilians, including a nine-month pregnant woman—shooting her in the belly to make sure the baby also died—raises tensions. Hamas acknowledged that the dead terrorists are two of the men who took part in the attack. But killing them is going to raise tensions. You know what the AP didn’t think raised tensions? The shooting attack on August 31. It did, however, interrupt the “lull”:
The attack disrupted a relative lull in the West Bank. The last fatal attack occurred in June, when Palestinians opened fire on a police vehicle near Hebron and killed one officer.
Two months between Hamas murders equals a “lull,” rather than, say, continuing terrorist attacks. There were also qassam and mortar attacks during the “lull.” But don’t forget, only Israel can break the peace.
By the way, otice that not once in the article can the AP name the Israeli spokesman, even though there is no call for anonymity. No, AP unwritten policy is to almost never name an Israeli spokesperson, even if quoting that person. Fair! Objective! Unbiased!
Bull.
Actually the more terrorists are killed the closer peace will be. I figure Israel needs to kill about 300,000 Pali “fighters” before the Palis will decide that they have had enough hurt and will accept that Israel is here to stay, and the Palis don’t want to make war any more because Israel hurts them too much when they do make war. It was killing seven million German soldiers that convinced the Germans by 1945 that they really did not want to keep on making war.
A Confederate general said “War means fighting and fighting means killing.” The Palis (and others) want war with Israel. Israel should give them their fill of it, until the Palis and the others who want war with Israel are sick to death of being killed by Zahal.