Tyrrell sums it up

Emmett Tyrrell sums up what's happened since Israel's 2005 "disengagement." Among other things he notes:

On the evening of March 6 in Jerusalem, a heavily armed Palestinian terrorist from nearby East Jerusalem entered the Mercaz Harav yeshiva and opened fire on the unarmed teenaged students studying there. Eight died, and eleven were badly wounded before another student and an off-duty soldier shot the terrorist. The atrocity ignited wild celebrations in Gaza.

[According to] findings just published by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research...84% of Palestinians approved of this attack.

Think about it--84% approve of a massacre of teenage boys and young men. "Thou shalt not murder" got lost in the shuffle somewhere....

Moreover, 64% approve of Hamas randomly firing rockets and mortars from Gaza into Israeli communities and 75% favor ending negotiations between their leaders and the Israeli government.... For handing over Gaza to the Palestinians this is the thanks Israel has received. Now Palestinians want further Israeli withdrawals from the West Bank. One does not have to be a student of the late Niccolo Machiavelli to advise against further withdrawals....

Tyrrell could have added that the current U.S. policy, based on an obsessive push for further Israeli withdrawals and granting the Palestinians sovereign statehood, is a disgrace to most of the U.S. conservative movement, its values and insights, and to America itself.