Excuse me darkangel, but what agenda are you promoting? "supposedly legitimate government"
you seem to have difficulty with accepting the Israeli government as legitimatelly elected. I think you'll find it is indeed a legitimate government elected fairly and freely and answerable to its electorate. It's right wing, I don't like it, but it's legitimate. Incidentally, remember arafat rejected a good deal from former Prime Minister Barak.
There is no point in venturing into the chronicle of events, what matters is now is what are the palestinians going to do in taking up the opportunity for negotiating peace with Israel?
The palestinian terrorist leaders hide amongst the ordinary civilian population, if the IDF takes the war to them fine, the palestinian terrorist leaders cannot be allowed to cowardly
hide whilst enjoying the fruits of a western life style and then complain if the IDF has just missed killing them, after all they want to go to paradise and yet whinge when the heat
gets too much for them!
So, in your view the palestinian terrorists can carry on with their homicidal killings but the IDF must simply look the other way and do nothing. No state anywhere will allow criminal gangs to engage in terror without responding and hunting down the killers.
The Israeli government has responded to the current peace initiative, it has begun to dismantle illegal settlements but clearly if the palestinian terrorist gangsters want to keep lauching homicidal bombers what do you expect? Yes, let there be peace but this must be negotiated between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority and there must be a clear commitment to peace by the plalestinians most of all by arafat and the palestinian terrorist leaders.
Despite Palestinian claims of a temporary ceasefire, the past week has witnessed two suicide bombings with many more warnings of terror attacks received by Israeli intelligence. Israel
is committed to peace and continues to carry out confidence-building measures towards the Palestinian people. Israel now looks to the Palestinian Authority to dismantle the terrorist
infrastructure which remains the main obstacle to peace.
Prime Minister Sharon is willing to promote a peace settlement, but considering Israel is facing the daily threat of and actual palestinian terrorist homicidal killings, for any government it would be hard to keep on track.
