Editorial
Things move very slowly in this part of the world. Sometimes they even seem to move backward rather than forward. Indeed, since Binyamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud government came into office, it has been trying to reverse the peace process.
Security coordination has become the major issue in today's crisis. Security is a need. No one can deny the right of Israelis to have it. Suicide attacks and acts of violence emphasize the urgency of the matter. By contrast, Palestinian security is not on any party's agenda, and the implication of the measures taken by the Netanyahu government against the Palestinian population raises very little reaction or concern.
Following every attack, Israel automatically places the responsibility on the Palestinian Authority (PA) and imposes collective punishment on the Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip: more stringent closures, closure of borders with Jordan and Egypt, demolition of houses, etc. These Israeli punitive measures agai
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