The West does not understand that the Palestinians do not want a state or to make progress. They just want to kill Jews.

One of the major problems that the West has is that it does not understand many of its adversaries. One often hears the word “senseless” used in the press to describe acts of terror or violence against civilians. When six hostages, including one American, were murdered in cold blood after nearly a year of brutal captivity (Israel said that they could no longer stand when they were slaughtered), their deaths were described as “senseless”. This description is correct in the eyes of us Westerners. But let’s look at the event from the eyes of the Palestinians, both the terrorists and their supporters. Their goal is to kill Jews, and they killed Jews. There is nothing senseless about it. It is rather a job well done. And we in the West cannot understand this. We see 20 somethings murdered and we say senseless; they see six dead Jews and declare success.

I first became aware of the demented Palestinian view of life and death when I read the indictments of those involved in the suicide bombing in which our son and I were wounded. Those who prepped the bomber, a Palestinian policeman, exhorted him to kill at least one Jew. If he sees that they are closing in on him, he should set off his charge so that at least one Jew is killed through his actions. In practice, he killed three Jews, two being a young married couple, she being pregnant with twins. Over eighty others were wounded.

When news spread of the death of the six hostages, those marching on........

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