(Jerusalem Post) Editorial- On Sunday, General Security Services head Avi Dichter told the cabinet: "Palestinian terror is a barrel with a bottom. It is not a sea or an ocean that cannot be drained." It should not be seen as a coincidence that Dichter's optimism appeared after Hamas leaders Ahmed Yassin and Abdel Aziz Rantisi met timely ends. Dichter is right and his comments are a breath of fresh air in contrast with the defeatism so routinely offered that there is "no military solution" against terrorism. The only way to defeat jihad is to prove its futility through military skill and demonstration of will. What we are seeing is the result of Israel doing just that.
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