Yes, Mr. President. The killings undermine peace talks.

(From Naomi Ragen)

Friends,
According to numerous news reports, President Obama denounced the murder of
four Israelis by a Hamas gunman as "senseless slaughter" and said
the attacks won't "undermine these talks."

Dear Mr. Temporarily-Because of-a-Mass-American-Insanity President (not to
mention 78% of the American Jewish community who thought that abandoning
Israel in their vote would somehow help them. Has it, 78% of American Jews?
Are you happier now, richer, more secure?) I beg to differ. As an Israeli,
I believe that the murder of Israelis in cold blood at close range by
Palestinian terrorists absolutely undermines the "peace process." It shows
that there is a hard-core of Palestinians, perhaps the majority, (after all,
in elections the "Palestinian people" overwhelmingly elected Hamas to lead
them in Gaza) are participants in or supporters of the mass murder of Jews.
They are no different in their philosophy and their actions then the Nazis.
And, believe or not, and despite the 78%, some Jews have actually wised up
since then. When someone tells us that they "want peace" or that "Arbeit
Macht Frei" we tend to question it a bit, and ask to see actions, instead of
empty words. So, yes, Mr.Temporary President of the temporarily insane
American voting public and the 78%, I'd say the murder of Yitzchak and Talia
Imas, who were buried in the ancient Mt. of Olives cemetery opposite the
Temple Mount in Jerusalem, seriously "undermines the peace process." Just
ask their six orphans aged 2 to 24: Daniel (married with a six-month-old
son), Ruth, Ariel, Hodaya, Ruhama and Oz-David. Talia was in her ninth month
of pregnancy.

Ask Maimon Even-Chaim and his eight year-old daughter, whose wife and
mother - Kokhava Even-Chaim, 37, who taught in Efrat, was riddled with
bullets. Ask Maimon how he felt when as a Zaka volunteer he arrived on the
scene and found Kokhava was one of the victims. Ask the new bride of
Avishai Shindler, 24, who buried her young husband so soon after the
wedding.

Ask the people of Beit Chaggai, the victims' home, how they feel that
because of pressure from the State Department and Mr. Temporarily President,
the weak-livered Israeli leadership took away checkpoints on road 60. Ask
them how they feel about tomorrow when more 'good will gestures' will be
demanded, resulting in more Jewish blood.

In light of the big, Jewish graveyard that is Europe, I'd say Mr.President
(albeit temporarily), you haven't gotten this one right. This absolutely
undermines your efforts to help the Palestinians fill Israel's graveyards.
Hopefully, Mr. Netanyahu, who represents us, understands that. We'll see.

As for me, I'm one Israeli who never wants to hear the word "peace" again as
long as I live. Because in the Orwellian world we live in, peace means war,
and death, and the slaughter of innocents. Every Jew murdered by terrorists
in Israel since the Oslo Accords is a "victim of peace." Just ask Shimon
Peres.

Naomi Ragen