The Myths of Peace and the Reality of our Dead Boys - Opinion

I want to tell you the story of two boys: twenty year olds; both of them in the elite of elite army units; both of them from rabbinical families; both of them living in Kiryat Arba, the Jewish neighborhood of Hebron.

Achikam Amichai and David Rubin were out on leave from their IDF units, enjoying a well-earned holiday. They

Shimon Peres found time for a photo opportunity, shaking hands with a member of Abu Mazen's government.

decided one Friday afternoon to take take a little hike in their backyards. Their friend, Naama Ohayon, went with them. It was a beautiful day, beautiful scenery, wild and open, as it is in that part of the land of Israel.

They passed an Arab, who asked them for water. The boys gave it to him, then waved goodbye and went on their way. A short while later, alerted by the Palestinian they had shared water with, three armed terrorists - who had been lying in wait for an opportunity to kill Israelis and steal their weapons - drove by and opened fire on the three young people.

Our boys, ambushed and badly wounded, nevertheless, began firing, killing the terrorist driver of the car. The other two terrorists then hopped out of the car, put their guns at point-blank range to the fatally injured boys and fired. These "big heroes" then threw their dead comrade out of the car like so much garbage and took off, back to Hebron where they live.

Hiding In the forest, Naama Ohayon, who had miraculously escaped, used her cell phone to contact Israeli security forces. They praised her unbelievable cool in the face of the horror she had witnessed. Security forces rescued her, but it was too late for the boys.

Meanwhile, Shimon Peres found time for a photo opportunity, shaking hands with a member of Abu Mazen's government who expressed his "condolences." This, of course, before it became known that the killers were Abu Mazen's paid employees.

According to Efrat Weiss, writing for Ynet, sometime on Friday evening, the Palestinian Authority started the rumor that it wasn't a terrorist attack at all, but a "drug deal" gone bad. This went all over the Israeli news; and you can just imagine how the parents must have felt. Others said the boys had no right to go hiking. (Right, let's all stay in our homes and quake.)

Meanwhile, the two murderers, fearing the IDF was closing in on them, turned themselves over to Palestinian security forces, who didn't say a word about this to the Israelis. However, when Israeli security asked them pointedly to turn over the weapons of the murderers and the victims, they did. But they didn't turn over the killers, whom they were still "interrogating."

Surprise, surprise. They weren't Hamas operatives.

Surprise, surprise. They weren't Hamas operatives. They were salary-earning members of the Palestinian Authority, paid for by US and European Union donations to Abu Mazen. He's the "good Palestinian," as opposed to the Hamas, who are terrorists and "bad Palestinians," the ones we need to weaken by supporting Abu Mazen and his gang of thugs.

The names of the murderers are Omar Badar Ali-Halim Teha - a resident of Hebron, 26, a "soldier" in the Palestinian National Security Forces and an active member of Fatah - and Ali al-Hamid Regev Dindis - a 24-year-old Hebron resident who is a clerk in the Sharia Court of the Palestinian Authority and also connected to the Palestinian Secret Service. The dead driver is 23 year old Radil Abdul Naim Natshe.

There are many conclusions to be drawn from this story. I will leave you to draw those concerning the myths of making peace with the Palestinian Authority.

Opinion	Kislev 5, 5769 / December 2, '08