By Stan Goodenough
Jun 21, 2006
Knesset Member Mohammed Barakeh Wednesday said Israel should respond to the incessant Kassam rocket attacks by re-entering into negotiations with the terrorists responsible for launching them.
?Defending S?derot will not be achieved through killing children but by returning to negotiations,? he declared.
It was the latest move in the Israeli Arab lawmaker?s ongoing effort to help bring about the dismemberment ? and ultimate demise ? of the Jewish state.
Israel?s 100 percent abandonment of the Gaza Strip last August was rewarded by an explosion in the number of Kassam rocket attacks aimed at Israeli targets, and the introduction of Katyusha rockets also from the Gaza Strip.
A Muslim, whose ?prophet? established the principle of using terrorism to advance Islam?s political cause, Barakeh knows that it will be to Israel?s further disadvantage to talk instead of defending itself militarily.
The Arab side to the conflict has always despised as weakness Israel?s willingness to make peace at the negotiating table.
Israel?s cession of territory under its control in Judea and Samaria, Gaza and southern Lebanon, has on every occasion been followed by a continuation, and often intensification, of attacks on Israeli targets.
Every piece of Jewish land surrendered to the Arab side in exchange for these broken peace promises sees the ?Palestinians? and the rest of the Arab world with them rejoicing in Allah?s victory over the Jews and proclaiming their reinforced assurance of ultimate victory over Israel.
Despite the mountains of evidence testifying to the bankruptcy and folly of continuing to pursue a land-for-peace solution, the international community keeps intensifying its pressure on Israel to go this route.
The forces from without are aided and abetted by those from within, like Barakeh and the rest of the ?Israeli? Arab members of Knesset.