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Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-peretz5sep05,1,3668068.story
Blows to Israel Must Never Go Unanswered
(Los Angeles Times) Martin Peretz - One of the fundamental and actionable principles of Zionism is that Jewish blood is no longer cheap. It follows that the shedding of Jewish blood will not pass without an accounting, without being avenged. And not just for vengeance's sake. But to bring about the elimination of the organized blood sport in Jewish lives. Israel has for years vacillated between responding to terror with exquisitely calibrated force and pacifying terrorists by giving them some of what they want. The U.S. is in great measure responsible for the moral ambiguity of peace-making between Israel and the Palestinians. The Palestinian strategy is terror, pure and simple, like the terror of al-Qaeda. George W. Bush has not quite admitted this, but he has come close. Still, his diplomats behave as if there are two different categories of terror: one with which we can never compromise and another that we will reward with a state. This is a bankrupt program, both morally and practically.