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A great commentary from The Wall Street Journal:

...We hope President Bush is reading this column, because we know how to stop these suicide attacks. All you have to do is give the Palestinians their own country. Really, it's that simple!



Thanks to Ted Turner, we know that the only reason Palestinians use suicide bombers is because "that's all they have." If they get their own state, they'll have a lot more, as William Safire notes:

1. Statehood, even if qualified as provisional or interim, confers a degree of sovereignty. That means control of borders, the ability to make treaties, and to import arms from Iraq and by sea from Iran.

2. Partial statehood would give Arafat control of an airport. A plane loaded with fuel or explosives could hit a major Tel Aviv building within three minutes, too quickly for Israeli jets to scramble. Ritual condemnation would follow.

3. Any form of statehood would limit Israel's ability to search out bomb factories and arrest terrorist leaders. What is now a tolerable sweep into disputed territory would be denounced in the U.N. as invasion pure and simple. That would trigger European economic boycotts and draw Arab allies into a wider war.

With capabilities like these at their disposal, there would be no need for Palestinians to resort to suicide bombings.

Consider, too, the great tradition of Arab statecraft. Twenty-one Arab states already exist, including such paragons of peace, prosperity and pluralism as Iraq, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Syria. Sure, the Middle East has some problems, but are there any that couldn't be solved by the creation of a 22nd Arab state? And don't forget, the new Palestine would be headed by a Nobel Peace Prize winner!

It all seems so obvious when you stop to think about it. We're surprised no one else has come up with the idea.



Assuming that Israel and the U.S. have an immense cosmic brain fart, and suddenly assign the entire West Bank to Arafat and his goons, and physically haul every last Jew out of the settlements there, declares the whole area a completely autonomous Palestinian state, and drops ten billion in foreign aid on Arafat's head:

Is there anyone here who honestly thinks that after this all takes place, the Palestinian leadership will not continue its terrorist campaign to obliterate the remaining parts of the nation of Israel? If so, please step right up. I have a 200-lb. dead sturgeon in each hand, and a proton energy pill that gives me the power of 20 atom bombs for 20 seconds.