Each concession serves as a springboard for the next round of demands. Whatever territory they receive will serve as a staging area for the next war. Remarkably, even some on the Israeli left are beginning to get it. This ignores the fact that Arafat has been planning the present offensive for months. And those are the short-term goals.
Indoctrination precedes weapons practice.
Palestinian textbooks equate Zionism with Nazism. Tanzim, the militia of Arafat's Fatah faction, was deployed with automatic weapons. Israel's Arab citizens have joined the jihad. Last week, motorists and Israeli cops were fired on by Israeli-Arab gunmen in towns south of Haifa. Arab members of the Knesset led howling mobs.