On Latifa Abu Thra'ar

[Gamblor]

Latifa, why did you do it? Didn't you think for one moment of the mothers like you who were liable to lose their lives because of you? And the children like yours who could have been permanently crippled or been blown to pieces? Didn't you understand what would happen to your own small children when your crime was discovered? Didn't you realize where this hatred would lead, and what would happen to your family, friends, and nation?"

Even worse, because of you and others like you, our soldiers will be forced from now on to examine every Palestinian woman and regard her as a security risk. You have violated the unwritten code that took into account the dignity of the Palestinian woman. You have violated our most fundamental belief that women, and especially mothers of children, remain outside the terrible circle of terror, outside the hunts and searches. You are the first one to destroy the concept. Your innocent friends, on their way to the doctor or visiting their families, will pay the price of your act at the checkpoints.

For lack of an alternative, and since no one will do it in our place, we shall continue to make life tough for them in order to save our own lives.

Isaac Herzog, Jerusalem Post Dec. 16, 2003

[nicky g]

"For lack of an alternative"

here's an alternative: end the occupation.

[Gamblor]

What occupation? Of what State?

You mean evacuate the Jews from the West Bank and East Jerusalem?

Are you saying you, like the PA, want those areas Judenrein?

You mean evacuate the army? Can't. They're protecting those Jews referred to above from people like Thra'ar.

[nicky g]

Nope, none of those things. Allow the formation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East-Jerusalem.

[Gamblor]

Nope, none of those things.

Fair enough.

Allow the formation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East-Jerusalem.

Who's in charge of that state? Who runs it? How will the state be set up? Democracy? Islamic law? What will be done with those who have spent their lives planning the deaths of Jews?