Reasons to keep checkpoints

I thought Mahmoud Abbas’ party was cracking down on this:

An armed Palestinian was arrested at the Hawara Checkpoint on Sunday night, Army Radio reported.

The gunman was carrying a pistol and a magazine when security forces caught him at the checkpoint, located south of Nablus.

And this:

Palestinians threw rocks at an Israeli car driving near Tekoa, south of Bethlehem, on Sunday night.

No casualties or damages were reported.

And this:

An Israeli was lightly wounded Sunday night after Palestinians threw rocks at his car while he was driving near Halhoul, north of Hebron.

No? So let us review: Hamas now controls the Gaza Strip. Abbas has his thugs sign a piece of paper that says they won’t attack Israelis anymore. In return, Olmert releases hundreds of Palestinian terrorists and hundreds of millions of dollars, allows Jordan to supply the PA with rifles, and is discussing having the Jordanian army help police the West Bank. And Abbas has his Prime Minister say that resistance against Israel is legitimate, but leave out the words “armed struggle.”

Wow. I’m underwhelmed with the results that Israel is getting from Abbas, and starting to wonder if the people who think the whole Hamas/Fatah war was a setup aren’t wrong.

Okay, no, not really. I’m not into the conspiracy theory mindset. But I do know that terrorists are opportunists, and Abbas has seized this opportunity with both hands and feet, and seemingly only one Israeli politician can get it right.

And oh yeah—the daily rocket bombardment continues. Not that the world cares, any more than they care that the Lebanese army has been bombarding Palestinian “refugee” camps for the past few weeks, killing civilians indiscriminately. The AP is covering up the casualty count, something they would never do were it Israel shelling the camps. But that’s a story for another post.