THE PROBLEM AND THE FACTS!
February 11, 2008
MID MORNING BLOG
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The two excerpts which follow were taken from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs – Daily Alert
The problem in the Gaza Strip cannot cont
inue indefinitely. It is either going to end in a massive military maneuver into the Strip to attempt to eliminate the problem or a hudna (truce) for a stated period of time.
How long Israel will let it go on is the question currently being debated,
THIS IS THE PROBLEM
PA Rocket Fire Escalating
Yaakov Katz and Tovah Lazaroff
(Jerusalem Post)
Public Security Minister Avi Dichter told Sunday’s cabinet meeting that in the first five weeks of 2008, Gazans had fired 330 rockets at Israel, one-third of what they
had fired in all of 2007.
Last weekend alone 40 rockets were launched, of which 14 struck Sderot, Dichter said.
THESE ARE THE FACTS
Restraint Is Not Possible
Editorial
(Ha’aretz)
The firing of Kassam rockets against Sderot and the nearby kibbutzim is not stopping and is extracting a heavy price in terms of fear and blood.
Responsibility for the shooting from Gaza, which has been going on for seven years, falls on the Palestinians. Were it not for the shooting, Israel would not respond. For the past eight months Hamas has ruled Gaza alone, and it is no longer possible to explain away the shooting as due to a lack of control over rogue organizations.
Are the West Bank and Gaza still one entity, aspiring to establish an independent state alongside Israel
? Is it possible that in all situations, Israel will hold negotiations for the establishment of such a state while Hamas is shooting at it
? Israel left Gaza in the summer 2005 to signal the start of an end to the occupation. The ball passed to the Palestinian court, where it has been stuck after the Palestinians elected Hamas, which opposes a peace agreement with Israel.
If the limited military actions Israel is undertaking in an effort to bring an end to the Kassam rockets will not bring an end to the shooting; if the moderate states, and first and foremost Egypt and Jordan, fail to contain Hamas – Israel will have no option but to embark on a broad military operation.
The Israel Defense Forces raison d’etre is to protect the country’ s citizen
s from attack.
Israel must prove that the blood of its citizens cannot be forfeited – so that in the future, its neighbors will abide by the agreements to which they have committed.
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