PALIS MISSING (ANOTHER) OPPORTUNITY

Palestinians Missing an Opportunity, Again - Yoel Marcus
As we watch the Palestinians acting crazy a month before Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, sending out suicide bombers and shelling Israeli towns, there does seem to be a screw loose somewhere. Sharon's plan for a Gaza pullout should have been welcomed by the Palestinians as the best news that ever came their way. I don't remember them being offered an independent Palestinian state, or the return of any land seized in 1948, when they were living under Jordanian occupation.

Every time Palestinian organizations get into an argument, they shoot at the Jews. In the last four days, more than 100 Kassam rockets and mortar shells have been fired at Israeli settlements. When Sharon says there will be no withdrawal under fire, he doesn't mean that the disengagement will be called off. What he means is that the army will move en masse into Gaza and put out the fire. (Ha'aretz)