Two Views of the Present Situation: Utopian and Realist

The utopian view holds that the wave of Palestinian suicide bombings is a reflection of the fact that Israel has taken away all Palestinian hope. Israel has brought these murders on itself by its policy of blocking and denying Palestinian aspirations and ambitions. The violence is a reflection of Palestinian desperation and frustration at the chance that they will be unable to realize their dreams. The key to stopping the suicide murders is to grant hope to the Palestinians by providing them a state as soon as possible. Israel brought the violence on itself by its refusal to expel Jewish settlers and by signaling that it would not end the occupation. Palestinian violence is retaliation for killing Palestinian leaders. The upsurge in world anti-Semitism is a reaction to Israeli brutality and obstinacy. If Israel would just remove itself altogether from the "occupied territories," tensions would decrease and peace would ensue.

Here’s the view from reality: The wave of Palestinians suicide bombings is a reflection of the fact that Israel has granted the Palestinians and their radical leadership hope - the hope that they will really be able to destroy Israel. Israel has brought these murders on itself by its policy of encouraging and coddling Palestinian aspirations and ambitions. The violence is simply a reflection of Palestinian excitement and ambition at the chance that they will be able to realize their hopes and dreams, that is, their dreams of destroying Israel and driving the Jews into the sea. The key to stopping the suicide murders is to take hope away from the Palestinian and Arab Israel haters. Israel brought the violence on itself by its offers to expel Jewish settlers and its signaling that it was willing and anxious to end the so-called occupation.

Palestinian violence is caused by Israel not making Palestinian terrorists and leaders pay a deterring price for their intransigence and violence.

The upsurge in world anti-Semitism is a reaction to Israeli weakness, defeatism, and timidity and an expression of the same appeasement mentality that greeted Hitler's rape of Czechoslovakia in the 1930s.

If Israel would just remove itself altogether from the "occupied territories", violence would escalate and total war would ensue.

Israel cannot have security nor survive for long unless it re-occupies and denazifies the "occupied territories." -- that is unless it seizes control of the terrorist apparatus, including the terrorist Palestine Authority, and destroys it, punishes the guilty, and creates a civilized and reasonable authority those Palestinians who are willing to coexist with non-Arabs and non-Muslims in its place.

Allowing the Palestinians presently in power to control their own territory is exactly what the Oslo "peace" process did, and like the Oslo process it will produce endless mass murders of Jews.

If the Palestinians have their own state, a new genocide of Jews is inevitable.