To the editor:
Isabel Kershner's article about the Israeli legislature calling for the withholding of tax funds used by the Palestinian Authority to reward terrorists refers to the PA Cabinet calling the legislation "another clear violation of signed agreements."
There is no mention of the indisputable fact that the Palestinian Authority is in blatant violation of its commitments under those very agreements to abandon terrorism and avoid incitement to terrorism. Both sides also committed to resolving disputes through negotiations, yet Mahmoud Abbas walked away from negotiations in 2008. For all practical purposes, he has never returned and the PA Foreign Minister has asserted he never will.
Obviously, peace is incompatible with the Palestinian Authority naming public squares and soccer stadiums after mass murderers and paying rewards to terrorists, with the amount of the reward scaled to the scope of the terror attack, and can never be achieved if the Palestinian Arabs stand by their insistence that they will not negotiate with Israel.
Kershner's article should minimally have noted some of the blatant violations of the Oslo Accords by the Palestinian Arabs.
Sincerely,
Alan Stein