“You cannot fight every Tom, Dick and Harry who has a rocket launcher or has a missile … and decides to shoot it off. These things happen.”
– Rafiq Husseini, Mahmoud Abbas’ chief of staff (hat tip: Meryl Yourish)
Which begs the following questions:
1. If the PA are not willing or able to fight terrorists launching rockets and missiles into Israel (you would think they would be easy enough to locate…just look for the guys carrying a rocket launcher through the streets), then why make any deal with them? We should fight the terrorists ourselves, and not reward the PA by handing over land.
2. Can you imagine the uproar if Israel responded in a similar way? For example:
Israel today killed three Hamas terrorists in a targeted killing. When asked why he authorized the IDF operation, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon stated “These things happen.”
You can bet that Israel would be roundly condemned. Yet I don’t hear anyone criticizing the PA after this statement.
3. Are there really PLO Arabs named Tom, Dick, or Harry? I mean, I know there are plenty of dicks..
