Hurting their cause: Palestinians continue to pursue self-destructive politics
Soon after President George W. Bush arrived in Israel last Wednesday to join the country’s 60th anniversary celebrations, an Iranian-made Katyusha rocket fired by Palestinians from Gaza hit a shopping plaza in the Israeli city of Ashkelon.
This daily feature of rockets fired into Israel from Hamas-controlled Gaza underscores the abysmal reality of the self-destructive politics pursued by Palestinians.
By any rational calculus it should be amply clear to Palestinians that if their objective is to acquire statehood, then it cannot be achieved militarily by destroying in whole or in part the state of Israel.
/ by Canadian Muslim professor Salim Mansur