Originally Posted by Eric5273

I'm pretty sure those attacks actually happened inside of Israel and not in the Palestinean territories.

But to answer your question, the Palestinean government is not capable of controlling things in their own country. To do that they would need a military and would need open access to all parts of their territory -- things that Israel has not allowed.

How can they fight against extremists if they do not have a military? Up to now they have used their police force which has proved to be very inefective.

This is like the ole merry-go-round that went on from 2000-2003. Hamas or Islamic Jihad would attack Israel. Israel would blame Yasser Arafat and would attack his compound and his security forces. Arafat's government would then be weakened thus allowing the extremists to launch more attacks, resulting in Israel again blaming Arafat.

Either the Israeli government was just very stupid (something I doubt) or they were purposely trying to upset the peace process.