Palestinian Terror Groups are Using Lull to Rearm

IDF Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon said Friday that Israelis should not be be fooled by the lull in terror attacks, and that violence would not end until the Palestinian Authority disarmed terror groups.

Ya'alon, speaking to a business forum in Haifa, said the terror organization "want the period of calm, but see it as a time to regroup and rearm before the fighting is resumed, without waiving their strategic goals."

This wouldn't be too surprising and shouldn't be since this tactic had been used numerous times before under Arrafat. In addition to this concern, I am equally concerned about the giving up of West Bank and Gaza territory and the continual push for the removal of "the wall." This seems to me to be a very bad combination of events that could have serious and ultimately deadly consequences.

It would appear that Arab Affairs commentator Oded Granot is thinking along the same lines when he was quoted as saying,

"Calm until the Palestinians cannot get any more out of Israel via diplomatic means."