A Ballistic Intifida

The Wash Post's piece on Hezbollah's missiles points to what might come next:

The separation barrier that Olmert said will roughly mark Israel's eastern border after the partial West Bank withdrawal is designed to keep out Palestinians, not rockets. Israeli military officials have warned that the next Palestinian uprising could be "a ballistic intifada," but others say a negotiated pullback from the West Bank would ease tensions with the Palestinians and perhaps lead to a state.

There shouldn't be a "but" in that sentence. It is precisely because technology, such as missiles, is becoming cheaper and more accessible that political solutions are what's needed. In other words, if it's becoming ever-easier for movements and people to get the means to kill, then one of the best things you can do is try to remove their desire to kill.  (Bob makes this point somewhere  in his Escalade-sized NYT op-ed.)

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