Ambush in Israel

A car carrying four Israelis was just ambushed by a group of Palestinian thugs. They shot the two couples from far away, and then went up to the car and shot them at point blank range to make sure they were dead. One of the women was pregnant.

It happened on the eve of the renewed peace talks. Some may view it as a random act of violence by a couple of thugs, but it really is part of the bigger picture and what goes on in the Palestinian society. Because the Arab world accepts these attacks by silent acquiescence, then this is part of the Arabic culture on the whole. Though when one brave woman, Egypt's Nonie Darwish, spoke out against her brethren, she had to have security systems installed in her home and have protection because of the death threats.

The larger world may point to Israelis supposed treatment of the Palestinians, but their standard of living actually improved before the infitada. I only know that if I had a neighbor who lobbed rockets and bullets at me, my friends or my family, I would be hard pressed to act any other way. And expecting anything less than violence in return is unreasonable especially after nothing else has worked.

Hopefully, Mrs. Darwish's prediction will one day come true, that Israel better build a high wall around herself to block out all the Palestinian in fighting because not only can they not peacefully coexist with their neighbor. They can't even peacefully coexist among themselves.