The Associated Press reported on June 10 that Hamas kidnapped a Fatah officer and threw him off of a 15-story building. Fatah, the same evening, just before midnight, threw a Hamas man from a 12-story building. Apparently, the difference between Hamas and Fatah is the height of buildings they throw their victims from.

The difference between Hamas and Fatah is the height of buildings they throw their victims from.



Well, not to the US and the EU, nor even to Israel. They have lifted the embargo of the Palestinian Authority since now it excludes Hamas.


We are embarking on yet another experiment similar to the ones that have failed so many times before. And the main participants in this experiment, with its extremely high probability of failure, will be people like me, the guinea pigs living here.


But wait a minute, I do not want to be part of this experiment. I know it will not work. It has not worked before, and since they have not essentially changed anything, why expect it would work now?


How about if the respective governments of Israel and the US do their homework first? In any other sphere of human activity, repetitive failure of this magnitude would not be tolerated. Why is it that when it comes to the "peace process," anything goes? Why is it a given that there must be a "peace process," in the first place? A "peace process" with Nazi Germany attempted in the years 1933-1939, and documented in Churchill's The Gathering Storm, cost millions of lives in the long run.


During the Cold War, politicians were at least somewhat acquainted with the enemy's thinking and were interested to learn more. Kremlinologists would notice the slightest change in the order of the politburo members at Lenin's mausoleum on November 7, or a new non-person skipped from Pravda's condolence telegram to a foreign reader. Hundreds of books discussing the history of Communism were written - some, like that of Helene Carrere d'Encausse, even accurately predicting the demise of the Soviet Union.


Today, not only is debate regarding the "peace process" discouraged, but people who are trying to get to the truth have to turn to the Internet and order books that are unavailable in regular bookstores; thus, forming a new subculture reminiscent of the Samizdat underground press in totalitarian regimes. Events witnessed by hundreds of journalists, like the Daniel Pipes-Ken Livingstone debate in London, went unreported in the mass media.


Why are otherwise reasonable Western liberal politicians incapable of learning from previous mistakes?


1) Because there is no accountability.


2) Because they think they understand the problem, and they do not.


If all the authors of previous failed peace plans would have been held accountable for their schemes and fined for their failure, with the penalty doubling with every succeeding flop, they would think seriously before coming up with the next bright idea. Oslo I, Oslo II, Taba, Wye, Tenet, Mitchell, Zinni, Sharm El-Sheikh, Roadmap - how long will this farce go on? If politicians are not held responsible for their unrealistic plans, then it will go on until all of us are no more. Enough!


Is there not enough evidence to pause and seriously consider that perhaps there is something basically wrong in the approach? Would it not be only reasonable to try to learn how the other side thinks, to educate ourselves about Islam first, before we rush into another peace plan? But the politicians are lazy and confident that this n+1st peace plan will be so much better than the previous n that have failed. Or they know that it is as futile as the rest, but they must be seen to be doing something.


The last few days have brought a clear demonstration of the perversity of Jihadi ideology. It turned out that at least four

In any other sphere, repetitive failure of this magnitude would not be tolerated.

doctors were involved in the terror plot in Britain. Doctors! Will it be enough to make a difference in the British mind? Or are they going to answer with a spate of anti-Israeli boycotts? The BBC's pernicious one-sided reporting, which has become indistinguishable from that of Al-Jazeera, has poisoned the minds of millions who have been lied to for years. The British public is only now finding out the truth, and on the streets of their own cities. Yet, even Israeli politicians are reluctant to point out that this is one and the same war.


It's about time that the politicians in the West learn what we are up against. It takes about $100 to order from Amazon.com the essential works by Ibn Warraq, Bat Ye'or, Robert Spencer and Serge Trifkovic. Could both the US and Israeli government please spare this amount and educate themselves first, before launching yet another "peace plan"? In fact, I am willing to donate my own copies of these works if someone in the respective governments would take the time to read them.