Palestinian Terrorism

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The Effectiveness of Israeli Targeted Liquidation
Compelling evidence exists that targeted killing has reduced the terrorist threat against Israel. Leftists repeatedly point out that in May 2002, after eighteen months of targeted liquidations carried out at an unprecedented scale, the number of Israeli victims of Palestinian terror had reached an all-time high of nearly 500. The leftist ignore the fact that the number of Israeli deaths would have been even greater if not for the targeted liquidation. Hundreds of muslim killers were rubbed out before they could make more hits.
It is not difficult to understand why targeted liquidation has not totally
stopped terrorism. Political entities promoting terror against Israel such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Palestinian Authority are very decentralized. They are made up of many cells, the destruction of some having little impact on others. What is required is a ten-fold increase in targeted liquidation. Muslim imperialism has adopted mass murder as a weapon of its war. To stop them, thousands upon thousands of muslims must be killed. There is no other way. The number of young men (and women) who are willing and eager to support suicide bombers appears to be virtually limitless because they assume that in most cases the worst that will happen to them will be a trial and a short jail sentence. Outfitting martyr wannabes with primitive bombs capable of wreaking murderous assaults appears to be relatively easy—at least within the capability of many Palestinians and other muslims who the Israelis have not yet killed.
The dramatic escalation of terrorist attacks and Israeli casualties in the first half of 2002, after more than a year of targeted liquidations is to be expected. The muslims think that westerners are soft and that any hardness will soon dissipate under strong dissension sponsored by leftist traitors. The muslims will surge their retaliatory murder to support their leftist traitor allies and convince western governments to give up. They can then make the case that targeted liquidation actually increases the number of Israelis or others killed, by provoking retaliation, than it saves lives by eliminating key terrorists.
Four examples of targeted liquidation that produced a murderous response are especially compelling. First, as mentioned above, the Israeli killing of "the engineer" Yehiya Ayash in January 1996 provoked four retaliatory suicide bombings of buses, killing more than 50 Israelis. Second, the first-ever killing of an Israeli cabinet minister occurred in October 2001, when members of the PFLP killed Rehavam Ze'evi. The PFLP stated it killed Ze'evi in retaliation for the Israeli killing of its leader, Mustafa Zibri, two months earlier. Third, the January 2002 targeted liquidation of Tanzim leader, Raed al-Karmi ended a cease-fire declared by Yasir Arafat the previous month. During that tenuous ceasefire, the violence of the intifada had been reduced to its lowest point since its inception. That lull is only an example of muslim terrorist political shaping. Following the slaying of Karmi, however, the Palestinians unleashed an unprecedented wave of suicide bombers, killing large numbers of Israelis. Both Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti and senior Israeli military officers agreed that Karmi's killing transformed a situation of relative calm into one of murderous violence. That is what the muslims want the Israelis to think. They know that if the Israelis cut and run there will no longer be a successful, hard model of how to deal with muslim mass murders. The total destruction of Israel will soon follow and the Christian West will fold like the Eastern Roman Empire shortly thereafter.