Ynet has the latest excuse the terrorists are using to launch rockets at southern Israel: They’re not just in response to Israeli “crimes.” They’re also a response to the Danish Mohammed cartoons.
The Salah al-Din Brigades, the Popular Resistance Committees’ military wing, claimed responsibility for firing the rockets. The organization’s spokesman, Muhammad Abed al-Aal, told Ynet that the firing operation, dubbed “the lines of fire”, was a response to the “crimes of the Israeli occupation against the Palestinians,” but also “in response to the cartoons published in Denmark degrading the memory of Prophet Muhammad
“The Palestinian resistance has committed to respond to the cartoons, and this is our initial response,” he added.
Asked why the residents of Sderot and the Negev should pay the price for cartoons published in Denmark, Abed al-Aal responded, “The Jews have also hurt Islam and have also hurt the Koran in their prisons, as part of the plot to harm Islam and the memory and status of Prophet Muhammad.
“The Palestinian resistance will not let Israel’s crimes and the smearing of Islam’s symbols go unanswered,” he said.
In other words, they’re going to fire a rocket because it’s a day that ends with a “y.”
But here’s the real kicker. The mayor of Sderot recently expressed a willingness to talk to Hamas in order to get the rocket fire stopped. Ynet’s reporter asked about this suggestion.
Addressing Sderot Mayor Eli Moyal’s willingness to reach a ceasefire with Hamas, Abed al-Aal said that the only way for the residents of southern Israel to feel safe is to leave their houses and the entire area.
“We won’t give them peace and security as long as they fail to stand up against their government and its aggressiveness, as long as one Palestinian child is suffering, and as long as there is one Zionist soldier on the land of Palestine,” he said.
There is the reason the mayor of Sderot is wasting his time. You cannot negotiate with terrorists. You can only kill them.