For the past several years, Israel has been destroying the ability of the Palestinian Authority to control anything. Then complaining because they aren't controlling the violence. That's like knocking a mans teeth out, then beating him to death for mumbling

News Analysis: Bombing After Lull: Israel Still Believes the Worst Is Over:
"The day after the first suicide bomb attack in Israel in almost three months, senior Israeli officials were offering what might seem a paradoxical assessment: Despite the bombing, the worst of the terrorism is already over because Israel is winning its war against the terrorists.

Of course, as with every other aspect of the tormented politics of the Middle East, that is a matter of some dispute.

The basic official position of Israel is that since the Palestinian Authority has not been able, or willing, to dismantle what Israel calls the terrorist infrastructure, the Israelis have been doing the job themselves, using two techniques. One is to step up work on the barrier they are constructing along a twisted north-south axis on the West Bank; the other is to undertake almost constant nighttime military operations in the centers of militant activity, most recently in and around the town of Nablus.…"

Israeli officials have offered positive assessments of the barrier and their raids before, but mostly in the last two and a half months, during which there were no suicide bombings against Israelis, and Israel undertook no "targeted killings" of what it regards as terrorist leaders.

But General Yaalon's comments came with the renewal of a sadly familiar ritual, part mourning, part retaliation, that follows terrorist attacks. On Friday, there were the funerals of the victims of the bus-stop bombing in a Tel Aviv suburb, including those of three soldiers, two of them young women and the other a young man. Meanwhile, Israeli troops destroyed the home of the suicide bomber, an 18-year-old man.

If the latest bombing was a reminder to Israelis of the worst days of the recent past, some, like General Yaalon, do not believe that it portends a full resurgence of terrorism. Israel may not be able to stop every attack, the reasoning goes, but the calm of the last months took place because Israel was able to stop most of the numerous terror attempts that were made. The fact that Thursday's attack was not carried out by Hamas is in its way a hopeful sign for the Israelis, who see the group's relative inaction as a product of their policy of targeted killings and not some change of heart.

Palestinian spokesmen, by contrast, say the relative lull that had lasted until Thursday was a result of to restraint among the militant Palestinian groups, not to Israeli military operations.

"I think there were no suicide bombings because these factions are for a while trying to give a chance," Ghassan Khatib, the minister of labor in the Palestinian Authority, said in an interview on Friday. "My view is that these factions can carry out suicide bombings, unfortunately, whenever they want."

In addition, the Palestinians say, the constant Israeli pressure only intensifies the hatred that prompts the attacks in the first place.…

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/27/international/middleeast/27MIDE.html