Crimes and Palestinians

Here’s an interesting statistic that you wouldn’t know unless you read the Israeli press: Ninety-seven percent of all IDF anti-terror attacks in 2007 caused casualties on terrorists, and only terrorists. That’s right. Only three percent of casualties in anti-terror attacks were civilians.

Lately, the thwartings have indeed become more worthy of the title “pinpointed.” In all the attacks of recent weeks, only gunmen were hurt, as confirmed by Palestinians. The rate of civilians hurt in these attacks in 2007 was 2-3 percent. The IDF has come a long way since the dark days of 2002-2003, when half the casualties in air assaults on the Gaza Strip were innocent bystanders.

The attacks fall into three main categories: targeting specific known terrorists; targeting Qassam rocket-launching cells en-route or in action; and punitive bombardments of Hamas outposts, in response to rocket or mortar fire into Israel. Since Israel began air assaults on the Gaza Strip, in late 2000, the first two types of attacks killed more than 100 Palestinian civilians.

And yet, when Israel is successful at killing terrorists—and only terrorists—the Palestinian prime minister is quick to label these pinpointed “thwartings” crimes.

… the PA leader condemned Israel’s “crimes against our people in the Gaza Strip and Qabatiya in the West Bank,” and called on the international community to intervene immediately “in order to stop Israel’s aggression against the Palestinian people.”

Thus proving that the so-called moderates are not moderate at all. Like I believe him when he said this yesterday:

“We mourn the deaths of the two soldiers. Every death is a senseless one,” Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said on Saturday evening in a meeting with President Shimon Peres in Herzliya.

“We are working to end the bloodshed, to create a better future,” said Fayyad and extended his condolences to the families of Cpl. Ahikam Amihai and Sgt. David Ruben, two off-duty soldiers on a hiking trip who were killed in a shooting attack south of Hebron.

This is the most dangerous Palestinian since Arafat. He really knows how to work the Western press and politicians. And now I know why Condi is acting so brainwashed. Because she believes this thug.