Sharon's Madness

Maybe it's not Sharon. Maybe it's all of Israel. But he certainly helps. Anyway, here's the latest from the New York Times online:

Later the militant group Islamic Jihad said it was abandoning an agreement not to mount attacks inside Israel, because the Israelis were still attacking Palestinians. The group, which said it had abided by the call by the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat last month to halt such attacks, said in a statement, "We will maintain our right to continue the jihad and resistance until the last drop of blood in our veins." Asked if that meant it would resume its attacks, one of the group's senior officials in the West Bank was quoted by Reuters as saying, "Not necessarily."

Yes, you heard right, Islamic Jihad is coming to the point where they will respect the Green Line, and only attack Israelis outside of Israel proper. That's a serious compromise!! But Sharon is so big-fisted and nationalistic that he had to go and wreck any understanding that there may have been by bulldozing houses. OK, it would be one thing if 4 Israeli citizens inside of Israel had been killed. But it was 4 soldiers, armed men, who were killed in what can only rightly be called a war. Israel does not kill anyone this time, but he bulldozes civilian homes! Don't they realize that now a dozen house-fulls of Palestinians (between 150 and 300 people, I'd guess) are Israel-haters for life? Sure one or two enlightened and blessed among them might forgive, but forgiveness is not a tenet of Islam (or Judaism), and this collection of morons apparently is insisting that it will go on retaliating until the whole Middle East is blind and toothless, as the saying goes.