Hudna by the Numbers
David Frankfurter writes from Jerusalem:
The IDF just released some interesting statistics. Between September 2000 and August 17, 2003 there were 18,413 attacks recorded. Of these, 282 were carried out since the now defunct hudna.
In fact, the statistics proved that I exaggerated when I said in previous notes that there had been 'daily attacks' since the declaration of the hudna. The IDF statistics show that on August 7, 2003 there were no attacks. On every other day from June 29, 2003 until August 17, 2003 there were between one and 16 attacks. An average of 5.8 attacks a day.
While one could rightly say that the hudna reduced the number of attacks to one-third of the previous level, that is still a far cry from the
Roadmap requirement:
Palestinians declare an unequivocal end to violence and terrorism and undertake visible efforts on the ground to arrest, disrupt, and restrain individuals and groups conducting and planning violent attacks on Israelis anywhere.
In fact, immediately after declaring the full adoption of the Roadmap, Palestinian Prime Minister, Abu Mazen, declared that he would take no action against terrorists or their organisations, would not collect weapons, and would make no arrests.
The Roadmap can be added to the string of solemn commitments that the Palestinians have made and then willfully ignored.
Frankfurter sent along
this graphic, which illustrates the number of daily terror attacks. It was updated on Aug. 17,
before the latest bus bombing.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at August 24, 2003 10:58 AM