Abu Abbas, the former head of a Palestinian terrorist group who was captured in Iraq on April 15, is infamous for masterminding the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro. But there are probably few who remember why Abbas’s terrorists held the ship and its 400-plus passengers hostage for two days. It was to gain the release of a Lebanese terrorist named Samir Kuntar, who is locked up in an Israeli prison for life. Kuntar’s name is all but unknown to the world. But I know it well. Because almost a quarter of a century ago, Kuntar murdered my family…

… Outside, we could hear the men storming about. Desperately, we sought to hide. Danny helped our neighbor climb into a crawl space above our bedroom; I went in behind her with Yael in my arms. Then Danny grabbed Einat and was dashing out the front door to take refuge in an underground shelter when the terrorists came crashing into our flat. They held Danny and Einat while they searched for me and Yael, knowing there were more people in the apartment. I will never forget the joy and the hatred in their voices as they swaggered about hunting for us, firing their guns and throwing grenades. I knew that if Yael cried out, the terrorists would toss a grenade into the crawl space and we would be killed. So I kept my hand over her mouth, hoping she could breathe. As I lay there, I remembered my mother telling me how she had hidden from the Nazis during the Holocaust. “This is just like what happened to my mother,” I thought.

As police began to arrive, the terrorists took Danny and Einat down to the beach. There, according to eyewitnesses, one of them shot Danny in front of Einat so that his death would be the last sight she would ever see. Then he smashed my little girl’s skull in against a rock with his rifle butt. That terrorist was Samir Kuntar.

By the time we were rescued from the crawl space, hours later, Yael, too, was dead. In trying to save all our lives, I had smothered her…

Wrote about it here.

They get to kill innocent Jews. Very simple, really.

A few Cherokee tribes took the first option. Most got moved to the Oklahoma territory.

We’re seeing much the same situation with Israel and Palestine. Only this time Israel has no place to but the intransigent Palestinians. They just don’t have the space. The only real option they have is to exile the Palestinians, because the Palestinians have shown they cannot be trusted at all.

For Israel to be safe Palestine must die.

That is the problem in a nutshell, Roger. Israel is desparate to fight their enemies by avoiding death as much as possible. In so doing, they cause just enough casualties to give their enemies a propaganda victory(due in no small part by Hamas/IJ/Hizbullah positioning themselves to draw maximum civilian collateral damage). At the same time, they do not inflict nearly enough pain to make the Pali Psychotic Death Cult reconsider its methods. So the crisis continues unabated punctuated by periodic hot spots like the present. Lather, rinse and repeat.

If Israel really wants the never-ending war to end they have to take the gloves off, give the West the one finger salute, and utterly destroy Palestine like we did Germany and Japan at the end of WWII. Until that happens the suicide bombings, kidnappings and shootings are the predictable contrapunt to Israel’s half-baked military solutions.