(Jerusalem Post) Mark Steyn - The Palestinian death cult negates all the assumptions of Western sentimental pacifism. I spent a short time on the West Bank earlier this spring and felt I was in a wholly diseased environment. On the West Bank, almost all the humdrum transactions of daily life take place in a culture that glorifies depravity: you walk down a street named after a suicide bomber to drop your child in a school that celebrates suicide-bombing and then pick up some groceries in a corner store whose walls are plastered with portraits of suicide bombers. You cannot have a real peace with such people. The problem is not the security fence but the psychological fence - a chasm that separates a sizable proportion of the Palestinian population from all Jews. For six decades, nothing the Palestinians have done has made sense if the objective is to secure a state of their own. But if the objective is to kill Jews, it all makes perfect sense. That's why, in West Bank towns, you see no evidence of nationalist fervor, only of Jew-killing fervor. The Palestinian Authority is part of America's war on terror in exactly the way Saddam was.
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