The July 2, 2008, Palestinian tractor-terrorism constituted a precise Palestinian human-missile, guided by Palestinian hate education, instituted in 1994 by Mahmoud Abbbas (Abu Mazen), then Yasser Arafat's first deputy, and proliferated via Abu Mazen's current educational-religious-media infrastructures.


K-12 and older, Palestinians are exposed systematically to school textbooks, sermons, editorials and news

Not only can they get away with murder, but they can be rewarded for murder.

editions - controlled by Abu Mazen - which idolize homicide bombers, calling for the destruction of the "illegitimate, infidel" Jewish State. Hate education (and not statements made to Western leaders and media) is the most authentic reflection of one's ideology, vision and strategy. Hate education constitutes the manufacturing line of terrorists. Hate education distinguishes between peaceful and violent societies. Hate education is facilitated by foreign aid provided to Abu Mazen by the United States, Western Europe and the United Nations.


The July 2, 2008, Palestinian tractor-terrorism was an expected derivative of a cultural-political-intellectual-educational-military environment in the Muslim world generally, and in the Palestinian Authority particularly. Such an environment breeds lethal hatred toward Salman Rushdie the "apostate", a European "infidel" cartoonist, the "infidel" Christian regime in Lebanon and the "infidel" Jewish State.


Mainstream Palestinian terrorists afford their families with Abu Mazen's "martyr allowances." They are commemorated by PA monuments and soccer tournaments, and idolized in poems featured on Abu Mazen-controlled TV and radio.


Palestinian tractor-terrorism, along with hundreds of foiled terrorist attempts and the barrage of Palestinian missiles, have taken place during the administration of the most dovish Israeli Prime Minister. Since the Oslo Accords in 1993, Israel provided Palestinians with unprecedented hope, denied them by the Ottomans, British, Jordanians, Egyptians and the Arab League. Israel imported PLO terrorists from oblivion in Yemen, Iraq, Sudan, Lebanon and Tunisia to the doorsteps of their intended Israeli victims, arming terrorists with missiles, ushering them to the White House and according them the Nobel Prize.


The Palestinian response was strikingly lucid - instituting hate education. Palestinian terrorism has been adrenalized by the hope of Israeli vacillation, retreat and fatalism. Palestinian terrorism has been energized since the 1920s by the existence - and not by the size - of the Jewish State.


The 1993 Oslo Accords have been perceived by Palestinian and other terrorists as a reward for the role model of hijacking, global terrorism and inter-Arab back-stabbing (Egypt in the 1950s, Syria in 1966, Jordan in 1970, Lebanon from 1975 until 1982, and Kuwait in 1990). Since 1993, Palestinian hate education, non-compliance, terrorism and homicide bombing has been answered by further Israeli territorial concessions, bolstered US support for a Palestinian state, and more generous American, European and international foreign aid.


Palestinians have realized that not only can they get away with murder, but they can be rewarded for murder.


Palestinian tractor-terrorism was also triggered by the slackening of Israel's posture of deterrence since 1993. Subordinating counter-terrorism to the "peace process" has handcuffed the IDF and played into the hands of terrorists, undermining the cause of durable peace. Israel's policy of retreat, coexistence with terrorism, ceasefires, subcontracting counter-terrorism to the PA (and international forces), striving for agreements with those who systematically and violently violate all agreements, and reliance on retaliation and defense, has produced a protracted war of attrition. Such a confrontation is a dream for terrorists and a lethal threat to Israel and to peace.


The resurrection of Israel's posture of deterrence - which constitutes a prerequisite for a successful war on terrorism - mandates preemptive, preventive, comprehensive offensives at the breeding ground of terrorism, focusing on the destruction of the ideological, financial and political infrastructures that direct, feed and brainwash homicide bombers. It requires a realization that every square inch conceded to the Palestinians has become a

The more substantial Palestinian independence, the more intensified is Palestinian and global terrorism.

platform for hate education and terrorism, serving as fuel - and not water - for the fire of terrorism.


Unprecedented Palestinian terrorism since Oslo 1993, culminating with the July 2, 2008, tractor-terrorism, has corresponded with unprecedented anti-US Islamic terrorism since the first attempt on the Twin Towers in 1993. The more substantial Palestinian independence, the more intensified is Palestinian and global terrorism. Palestinian terrorism was at low ebb on the eve of Oslo, catapulting to its peak since Oslo.


US support of an independent state for the role model of terrorism and hate education has been construed by anti-US Islamic terrorists as weakness and as a reward for terrorism. As evidenced by Abu Mazen's education, religious and media systems, such a state would doom Jordan, a US ally, to oblivion. It would energize anti-US terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan (which was intensified following Israel's 2005 Disengagement). It would provide Iran, Russia, China and North Korea with a strategic foothold on the eastern flank of the Mediterranean. It would add another anti-US vote at the UN. It would bolster terrorism against weak Gulf regimes, further destabilizing the Middle East. And it would reward those who oppress Christians in the Bethlehem area.