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...Creveld believes the IDF is in a no-win situation. Failure to react harshly to Palestinian attacks only encourages more attacks; but reacting harshly to Palestinian attacks also spurs more attacks. And, he warns, the Palestinians have the greater capacity to absorb casualties. "As Israel's own experience in its War of Independence shows, no sacrifice is too great for a people seeking their freedom," Van Creveld writes. "Compared to the 1 per cent of the Jewish population who died in that conflict, Palestinian casualties so far have been minute...
...back into exile - Netanyahu believes the Palestinian leader can't be trusted to stop terror attacks, let alone conclude a peace deal with Israel - and to take down and disarm not only the various militia and terrorist cells but also the security structures of the PA itself. Once the IDF has cleared all weapons out of the West Bank and Gaza, says Netanyahu, the Israeli forces could withdraw to unspecified "defensible positions" (certainly not the 1967 borders) and wait for the emergence of a Palestinian leadership ready to do a deal with Israel...
...year campaign. But the Israeli Defense Force was a lot less vulnerable in Lebanon than it may soon be in the West Bank and Gaza, where its forces are dispersed to defend some 145 settlements and to encircle scores of Palestinian population centers. Such vulnerability only increases when the IDF is sent inside those population centers in pursuit of Palestinian suspects...
...rule, Palestinians can’t even travel on the same roads as the settlers, and they are confined to tiny Bantustans. When they wish to leave their Bantustan to go to the market, school or work, they are subject to the whims of the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) officer in charge of the checkpoint. If he’s having a good day, then maybe they’ll get to cross unmolested. Other times, the officer will deny entry or exit to all Palestinian males under...
...bringing this up for your own good—you need to know that the world is watching. We see the photographs of Palestinian children playing in the rubble of their bull-dozed homes, IDF soldiers pointing their machine guns at elderly Palestinian men and tanks rolling through Palestinian neighborhoods. Fear tactics and mass punishment—illegal under international law—are no more justifiable in the West Bank than they were in the townships of Johannesburg...