Checkpoints Save Jewish Lives, Lack Of Checpoints Cost Lives
PA says 2 suspects nabbed for carrying out terror attacks
By JPOST.COM STAFF
09/08/2010 01:00
Officials say terrorists, who are both members of Hamas, arrested over the weekend and being held by Palestinian security forces; they wont be extradited to Israel.
Palestinian Authority security organizations have arrested two men suspected of carrying out the recent West Bank shooting attack that injured two Israelis.
Last week's attack took place at the Rimonim Junction, east of the West Bank city of Ramallah. Two Israelis were injured, one seriously, when Palestinian gunmen ambushed the Israeli car.
The terrorists were arrested at the weekend, according to the report, and are now being held by Palestinian security forces but will not be extradited to Israel.
The suspects are both members of Hamas and residents of a village near Ramallah.
The announcement comes a day after Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said that his forces arrested hundreds of Hamas members since the terrorist attacks.
"The decision to carry out the attack was politically motivated and intended to embarrass the Palestinian Authority," Fayyad told Palestinian journalists.
Checkpoints may have saved four people last week, if in fact these are the terrorist that murdered the four near Kiryat Arba last week.
To travel from the greater Ramallah area which is located north of Jerusalem, to Kiryat Arba should have put these terrorist through at least one checkpoint and maybe several road blocks. But to build the confidence of the Palestinians under American State Department pressure checkpoints have been greatly reduced in numbers.
Checkpoints save Jewish lives, who cares about if Palestinians feel put down by having to go through them.
