Rather than responding in kind to Israel's courageous peace gesture, the Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas as it's popularly known, renewed its terrorist attacks on Israel civilians, innocent women and children. Targets of Hamas terror are almost always civilian women and children.
Israeli reprisals are forceful but always at military targets in response to a terror attack.
And the cycle continues. Tourists are threatened, American citizens abroad are killed. Extremism, violence and terror are quickly becoming the norm. Our patience is not unlimited. He warned that if Yasir Arafat doesn't end the violence within a couple of days, Israel will respond with a sharply escalated military response.