(UPI) Joshua Brilliant - The Islamic Jihad, which assumed responsibility for the Hadera attack, was behind this year's suicide bombings in Tel Aviv and Netanya, and the planning of more attacks. The Islamic Jihad's raison d'etre is the fight against Israel and the aim to eradicate it. Not just push it out of the West Bank, but kick it out of the entire land. According to Israeli military and foreign assessments, its armed wing, the al-Quds Brigades, has a "few hundred" members. The attack underlines also the PA's weakness. Abbas genuinely opposes terror, but his hopes for "one gun" in the PA are, so far, just dreams. Since the Islamic Jihad is adamant on liquidating Israel, there is no room for a compromise with it. Fighting will continue until Israel, or the Palestinians, put an end to that movement.
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