by Douglas DeBono, 2006

ARTICLE ORIGINALLY APPEARED AT StandingOrders.BlogSpot.Com, August 17, 2005

This week Israel enforced the abandonment of Israeli settlements along the Gaza Strip.

For those of you who have forgotten, Gaza is a thin strip of land won during the Six Day War in 1967.

The idea here is that by giving land to the Palestinians, there will be peace.

So far, Israel continues to give back land and the fine folks running Hazbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad...blah, blah, blah continue to recruit, arm and produce bomb vests.

At this rate, Israel will run out land long before peace is achieved. The only peace the bomb-making thugs, who nibble away at Israel's borders, are interested in is the total annihilation of Israel.

This a bad idea that sounds good, but it will only get more people killed and precipitate a nasty war. But like so many liberal, do-gooder ideas, it sounds good and the policy architects had the very best intentions.