Bibi is a Pussy

Here is Caroline Glick's take on the non-response to the massacre of 4 innocent civilians (5 if you include the unborn child shot dead inside their mother's womb) on a highway in Israel:

THIS brings us back to Tuesday evening’s highway massacre. Predictably, the Obama administration led the way in framing the terrorist violence as a bid by Hamas to derail the newest round of negotiations.

For example, after meeting with Netanyahu on Wednesday Obama said, “The tragedy that we saw yesterday where people were gunned down on the street by terrorists who are purposely trying to undermine these talks is an example of what we’re up against.”

The only party that rejected the administration’s rationalization of the attack was Hamas, whose operatives reportedly carried it out. In an interview on Thursday with the London-based Asharq al-Awsat, Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar said that the talks have nothing to do with the attack. As he put it, “The bid to link this operation to the negotiations is completely wrong. When people have the opportunity, the capability and the targets, they act.”

The truth is probably found neither in Zahar’s claim nor in Obama’s assertion. In all likelihood, Hamas was testing the waters. Iran’s Palestinian proxy wanted to know whether the regular rules for peace processes have kicked into gear yet. Those rules – as the families of the hundreds of Israelis murdered by Palestinian terrorists during the peak years of peace processes will attest – involve Israel giving free rein to terrorists to murder Jews during “peace talks.”

Since Yitzhak Rabin first shook Yasser Arafat’s hand on the White House lawn 17 years ago, successive prime ministers have opted to not retaliate for murderous attacks when peace talks are in session. They have justified their willingness to give the likes of Hamas a free hand to murder by claiming that fighting back would be tantamount to allowing terrorists to hold the peace process hostage. Conducting counterterror campaigns in the midst of negotiations, they have uniformly argued, would endanger the talks and so, Hamas, Fatah and Islamic Jihad must all be given a carte blanche to murder.

Echoing these sentiments precisely, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi and Shin Bet Director Yuval Diskin all reportedly objected to launching any response to Tuesday’s attack. According to the media, the three men closed ranks against Netanyahu, who reportedly wished to attack Hamas targets in Gaza following the massacre.

Wednesday’s roadside shooting attack, in which a man and his wife were wounded, was a clear indication that Hamas and its ilk received the message. Just as Zahar said, they are always looking for an opportunity. And in not responding to Tuesday’s attack, Israel told them that for the duration of these negotiations, Hamas can again kill with impunity.

Whether Hamas renewed its terror attacks this week because it likes to murder Jews, because it was trying to derail negotiations or because it was testing Israel, the fact of the matter is that from Hamas’s perspective, it stood only to gain from attacking. Terror is always popular with the Palestinian public. As The Jerusalem Post reported, when news broke of Tuesday’s attack, mobs of Palestinians in Judea and Samaria took to the streets to celebrate.

Part of the reason that Palestinians love terrorism is because they have never had to pay a real price for killing Jews. To the contrary, they have been richly rewarded. The Palestinians believe that it was terror, not negotiations, that convinced Israel to withdraw from Gaza.

So, too, as they glance at the international response to their acts of wanton murder, they see that terror has only benefited them. International monetary assistance and political support for the Palestinians have always risen as terror levels peaked.

Obama’s insistence that the talks go on after Tuesday’s attack showed the Palestinians that the game is still theirs to win. The US will continue to side with the Palestinian demands against Israel regardless of their behavior.

It's really depressing. Remember how recently the Lebanese assassinated an Israeli Lt. Colonel near the border for the crime of moving a tree on the Israeli side of the border? What was the Israeli response? Not much. You have to feel that the Lebanese feel that they literally got away with murder. Now we have a massacre of innocent Israeli civilians and what does the government do? Nothing. The most that you can say happened was that the PNA arrested the usual suspects. What a friggin joke. And now with a second attack on a car with no response, the joke is really on us.

Tell me again what's the point in having someone like Bibi in charge when he just acts like a left winger once in charge? It all seems hopeless. Bibi should be doing what Israpundit suggests, kill Hamas and then cluster bomb their funerals. Israel is going to be hated anyway so let's kill our enemies while we have the chance.