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The necessary steps that Abbas must take in Palestine

The situation in the Palestinian territory is deteriorating quickly. Despite the planned Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, the various terrorist groups like Hama, keep lobbing rockets into the Jewish settlements and mounting attacks against other targets. Last week the Israelis captured a female suicide bomber, who was palnning to blow up an Israeli hospital. A hospital, by the way, where she was receiving health care. If the terrorists want to inflict another injury on their people, then that is a good way to do it. In many cases, the Jewish hospitals are the only ones that offer certain medical procedures. If this woman had succeded, a no-Palestinian patients policy would soon follow. However, bringing grief to their own people is nothing new. In their mad desire to eliminate all Israel Jews, the well-being of the rest counts as necessarily enforced martyrdom. That same insane reasoning, which allows al-Zarqawi to bomb away his co-religionists, is evident in Iraq.

Unfortunately, even if Abbas really wanted to create a stable, prosperous Palestine, he would have to wage a civil war. As it stands, Gaza is controlled by the Hamas gunmen, who are now poised to win at the ballot box. Gangsterism is rampant through the cities, while tribal elders rule many of the rural areas. To top it off, corruption in the Palestinian Authority is out of control. Should it come to a power struggle, Abbas can't even count on his Fateh military, seeing as its off-shoot, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, is aligned withthe terrorists. Meanwhile his failure to control the armed militias has given Sharon the green light to arrest and assassinate the followers of these groups. The result of all these factors will be an unstable, desperately poor Palestine in perpetuity. The only 'solution' might be Iran getting the nuclear bomb and trying to wipe Israel off the map with it. Seeing as that would effectively kill most Palestininas as well, the problem would be solved. Especially, if in their final death throes, Israel decided to eliminate Syria, Southern Lebanon, and most of Iran with their nuclear arsenal. Their dropping a few on Iraq's Sunni triangle, as a thank you for the US helping bomb Iran back to the Stone age, would solve that problem as well.

© Bud Talkinghorn--It is sad to think my bloody-minded scenarios probably have greater future promise than peace in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

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