The Wages Of Appeasement

....are death:

Twenty-one people were wounded Sunday, two seriously, in a suicide bombing at a central bus station in the southern Israeli town of Beersheba, Israeli officials said. ...

Wasn't abandoning Gaza supposed to bring peace?

I have to take issue with Cap'n Ed's conclusion:

The Israelis performed a concrete act of compromise in abandoning the Gaza settlements this week. All they got in return is more attacks. Abbas and the appeasers at State had better start thinking what lesson that will teach the Israelis. They will not allow themselves to get pushed into the Mediterranean just to satisfy the moral relativists in the West, and their patience may soon run out. Binyamin Netanyahu stands ready in the wings to change the entire military strategy of the Israelis regarding the Palestinians. If the US wants to avoid anyone getting pushed into a body of water, then they had better tap Abbas on the shoulder and remind him of the proximity of the Jordan River.

I would have agreed with that before the Gaza pullout. Now I'm not so sure. The momentum behind Palestinian terror and Israeli retreat will not be so easily reversed, or even slowed. Just look at how CNN phrases the story:

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast, which took place three days after Israeli troops killed five Palestinians. The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad has vowed retribution for that incident. ...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas condemned what he called a "terrorist attack" and called for "calm and restraint in spite of the Israeli provocations, the most recent being the killing of five Palestinians," in a statement carried by Wafa, the official news agency of the Palestinian Authority.

The Extreme Media basically regurgitates the Pal press release, deliberately omitting, as Mr. Morrissey points out, that this "Israeli provocation" was "the killing of an Islamic Jihad leader who had orchestrated two suicide bombings of Israeli civilians," and who was (natch) hiding in amongst civilians in order to facilitate just such dishonest propaganda.

The bottom line on all of this is that nobody cares. The whole world is against the Jews, as has been the case for thousands of years, and after initially correcting Bill Clinton's hideously pro-Pal tilt, even George Bush is trodding down the same false "peace" path. And then Ariel Sharon, the King David of modern Israel, knuckled under and as much as publicly blurted, "We are all Shimon Peres clones now!"

And the result? Another suicide bombing, and twenty-one more maimed Israeli civilians.

But that doesn't matter. They're used to that by now. So are we.

Besides, "peace" is worth a little national suicide.

Right?