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Guy Bechor writes in Ynet about how bad this deal with Abbas is for Israel:

Back to Oslo illusion

Israel’s immunity gesture will restore terror infrastructure in West Bank
The Palestinian terror infrastructure in the West Bank has been embroiled in an existential ordeal for at least a year: The IDF’s successful nightly targeted killings, which employed the element of surprise, have completely impeded its operations.

Instead of plotting terror attacks against Israel or against Israelis, Fatah activists, particularly those operating within the ranks of the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, as well as Jihad activists (Hamas is not particularly prominent in these activities) are busy seeking refuge, escaping and living underground in constant fear of the IDF. This is one of the IDF’s key successes in the war against terror that has completely shattered what has remained of the Palestinian intifada.

The collapse of the terror infrastructures was very perplexing for the Palestinians because albeit it being originally established against Israel, it also represented Fatah’s strength against Hamas. Fatah demanded a truce from Israel that would also include the West Bank (and in exchange guaranteed progress in the Gilad Shalit affair – although it has no control over his destiny) and in any case asked for immunity for hundreds of persecuted activists.

Now Fatah activists will get what they wanted from the Israeli government. The West Bank will once again become an immune paradise; anti-Israel terror will be restored without interference and will pose a serious threat to Israeli society, which has experienced relative stability and calm in recent years.

Read the entire depressing op-ed. And if this isn’t enough for us, we have a new summit being proposed by President Bush. I predict nothing major will come of this, particularly since the Palestinians are once again pulling the final-status trick out of their hat. Let us note that terrorism has never stopped, the Palestinians refuse to acknowledge the Jewish origin of the Temple Mount, and the “right of return” is still on the Palestinian table. This conference will do nothing but give W. a photo op.

And on the same day that summit is proposed, rockets launched from Gaza struck an Israeli home. Not that the mainstream media noticed. They’re too busy talking about how Israelis and Palestinians are dancing in the streets over the new peace plan. Well, except for Hamas.

In Gaza, Hamas rejected the Bush proposal, calling it a “crusade” against the Palestinian people. Isolated in Gaza, and facing a crackdown in the West Bank, it remains unclear how or whether Hamas would try to undermine the conference.

Um. Let’s take a look at history, shall we? It’s obvious how Hamas plans to undermine the conference. Expect major terror alerts in the days before, and pray that the Israeli intelligence services can stop the planned terror attacks. Oh, and definitely expect a barrage of kassams into Israel.

Sorry. Nothing is going to come of this peace conference, because having terrorists sign a peace of paper swearing they will not be terrorists any more is about as valid as, oh, I don’t know, the Munich agreement of 1938. That would be the one that Neville Chamberlain said would bring “peace for our time.” And we all know how that ended.

More to come as the story evolves, but it looks like a murderer of nine-month-pregnant Tali Hatuel and her four daughters has been caught.

Cleared for publication: Security forces operating in the Gaza Strip at the beginning of June arrested Jihad Abu-Dahar, an Islamic Jihad member, who confessed that he was involved in the May 2004 terror attack which killed Tali Hatuel and her four daughters.

Abu-Dahar was indicted by the Beersheba District Court on Wednesday. (Efrat Weiss)

Unfortunately, Israel does not have the death penalty. It should.

So now, apparently, all it takes to stop being chased by the IDF is to sign an agreement saying that you really, truly, honestly don’t want to be a terrorist any more.

The Israel Defense Forces has significantly cut down on operations involving arrests of wanted Palestinian militants in the West Bank, as a result of agreements reached between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Since Thursday morning, no such operations have been carried out in the West Bank.

This new development is linked to the meeting Monday between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, but also to the security program of the Palestinian prime minister, Salam Fayad, and to Israel’s decision to offer pardons to 178 Fatah militants sought by the Shin Bet security service.

So far, the new regulations have still not been conveyed to the IDF in writing, and Central Command has so far been given only oral instructions.

Unbelievable. But wait. it gets worse.

“For now, we have removed our foot from the gas pedal,” military sources told Haaretz Sunday, referring to the level of intensity with which wanted militants in the West Bank are being hunted down.

Authorization for carrying out arrests of Palestinians about whom there is no specific intelligence concerning a potential threat, will now be required from senior-level officers, the sources say. Normally, such decisions would be made by brigade commanders; now they require the authorization of the GOC Central Command, and possibly the General Staff.

The offficial countdown to the first terrorist attacks began yesterday. Here’s my prediction: Nothing good will come of this, and terrorist attacks will continue. But the world will push Israel to ease checkpoints and allow free passage for the ex-terrorists. Then we’ll really see how much those signed pieces of paper are worth.

Oh, yeah. Nothing.

Oh, yeah, this’ll work. Fatah terrorists are signing agreements that they will no longer murder Israelis. Even Zakaria Zubedei is putting his signature to these worthless pieces of trash.

Scores of wanted Fatah militants in the West Bank have turned in their weapons, under an arrangement in which Israel will grant them effective amnesty as a gesture to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.

The Prime Minister’s Office, apologizing for an earlier denial, acknowleged Sunday that Zacharia Zbeidi, head of the Fatah Tanzim militia in the West Bank city of Jenin and one of the highest-profile Fatah commanders on Israeli wanted lists in the territories, is among the nearly 200 militants to whom Israel plans to offer amnesty.

Most of the fugitive militants have signed documents that announced their resignation from the paramilitary organization and a promise to refrain from terrorism. As of Saturday night, nearly 150 of the 178 militants had signed the document. Scores of them had turned in their weapons by Sunday.

Olmert apologized to the bastard? Olmert apologized to the Jew-killer? WTF is wrong with you, Israelis? Why can’t you bring his government down and put someone in who might actually call a terrorist a terrorist?

Olmert is also going to let the head of the DFLP into the West Bank. The DFLP is the organization that perpetrated the Ma’alot massacre, of which commenter Alex Bensky wrote:

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.

This is the man that the Olmert administration thinks has changed.

But Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai said Saturday that “We need to view the request of the PA Chairman regarding Hawatmeh’s entry into the West Bank favorably, especially since it does not involve entry into Israel and it is for a limited period of time.”

“Even though Hawatmeh dealt with terrorism in the past, under the current circumstances he is proving to be a person capable of contributing toward leading the Palestinians toward a more rational condition,” Vilnai added.

I’ll tell you what I think: I think that Abbas has turned out to be as good a liar as Arafat. He is gathering terrorists to him just like Arafat, and isolating Hamas—until they are useful to him—just like Arafat.

Nothing has changed. Only the names of a few of the players. Olmert is proving to be as stupid as every other Prime Minister who thought the Palestinians were ready for peace. They’re gathering their forces, is all. Watch.