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What will Israel do when the Palestinians renew their rocket attacks?
By Dr. Aaron Lerner
Date: August
16, 2005
What will Israel do when the Palestinians renew their rocket
attacks? Even an Israel Government Television interview show host
ridiculed Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz for proclaiming that Israel
would respond with truly decisive action. Some critics have claimed
that if the IDF put as much thought into defeating Palestinian
rocket launching teams as it did into its plan to expel the Jews
residing in the Gaza Strip and northern Samaria that the Sderot
border town would have long ago been rid of the threat of Qassams.
It would be unfair to claim that the IDF hasn't devoted an enormous
number of man hours on the Palestinian challenge.
It has.
But the Israeli planners comes doubly handicapped into the problem:
a tendency to underestimate the ability of the Palestinians to
manipulate situations to their advantage and the ideologically
driven belief of the Israeli Left that essentially all of Israel's
problems with the Arabs would evaporate if the Jewish state would
simply withdraw to the '67 line. The Israeli tendency to
underestimate the ability of the Arabs to manipulate situations to
their advantage (human shields, international pressure, etc.) can
readily lead to overly simplistic plans. At the same time, the
belief that retreat to the '67 lines will yield utopian peace serves
to relieve the planners from the pressure to come up with truly
viable solutions. In the absence of serious thinking and planning on
Israel's part, the projected renewal of the Palestinian war of
attrition could very well push Israel into a downward spiral of
territorial concessions to the point that her indefensible borders
entice her neighbors to disgorge this "foreign object" from
the Arab sea.
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