Will that make any difference to the weepers of the Western world? I doubt it.
On the other hand, the Palestinians deliberately target Israeli civilians. The terrorists of Hamas know that Israel would not fire at the fields in northern and southern Gaza if terrorists were not firing at Israeli towns from Gaza with the sanction of the Palestinian Authority. Even Israel’s targeted assassinations of war criminals who have deliberately killed Israeli citizens and are planning more suicide attacks would end at once if Hamas and Israel concluded a peace agreement which, of course, Hamas refuses to do.
The international terrorist organizations count on the infidels of the West to lose their collective nerve and be unwilling to sustain casualties in this ongoing war of survival between civilizations which might continue for decades. They hope the West will submit to defeat in Iraq and consent to the elimination of Israel, even if that would mean a world dominated by the Islamic fanatics.
Their weapon is fear and their willingness to die as martyrs for their cause while we in the west value every human life. Zarqawi, Osama bin Laden’s deputy in Iraq, left us these words as his epitaph: “Killing the infidels is our religion, slaughtering them is our religion, until they convert to Islam or pay us tribute.”
Illustrative of what the West is facing and the foolishness of some individuals is the recent response of the father of Nick Berg. Nick, an innocent young American who was in Iraq helping to repair its damaged infrastructure, was personally beheaded by Zarqawi in May 2004. The killers recorded the execution on television for the world to see.
On the death of Zarqawi who murdered his son, Nick’s father, Michael, now a Green Party candidate for congress in Delaware, said:
“Zarqawi felt my son’s breath on his hand as he held the knife against his throat. Zarqawi had to look in his eyes as he did it. George Bush sits there glassy-eyed in his office with pieces of paper and condemns people to death. That to me is a real terrorist.”
These words are insane. I believe and I pray that most Americans are made of sterner stuff.