(New York Sun) Editorial - When Israel broke into the PA prison at Jericho and seized the Palestinian Arab terrorists who killed tourism minister Rehavam Zeevi, Jerusalem sent an important signal at a time when the new Hamas government is going to be testing the West at every turn. It says that Israel is not going to forget, is not going to be trifled with, and is going to see that justice is done. It was an aberration of justice in the first place that the terrorists were being held in a PA prison. These terrorists had escaped Israeli justice as part of a 2002 agreement that allowed the terrorists, then being shielded by Arafat in his Ramallah compound, to be transferred to the prison rather than face Israeli justice. The terrorists had virtual freedom within the jail compound, with the jail only really serving to protect them from Israeli troops.
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