Reverse Sharon’s massive error in judgement.
We do not need another terror enclave, filled with the most volatile, nefarious types who scream for Jewish blood. Admit the error of creating a power vacuum, break the entity and establish sovereignty over it once again.
NOTE: The Arabs care more about destroying the Jewish state than achieving a state of their own, otherwise they would have had yet another Pali state (Jordan being the other) decades ago.
Into the fray: Why Gaza must go
The only durable solution requires dismantling Gaza, humanitarian relocation of the non-belligerent Arab population, and extension of Israeli sovereignty over the region.
Givati brigade in Gaza. (photo credit:IDF SPOKESMAN’S OFFICE)
We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind…. You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny… That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: victory; victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
– Winston Churchill, May 13, 1940
We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.
– Albert Einstein
At the time of writing this column, ground operations in Gaza were still going on and reports of increasing casualties were coming in with depressing frequency. This should, therefore, be a time for national cohesion and solidarity, with unity and support for the war effort, and criticism of the government suspended.
Sadly, however, the government has given the public little coherent indication of its aims, or of the realities it is striving to create.
Ill-defined and inadequate objectives
Worse, not only is there no clear indication of where the country is going, there seems to be little willingness to recognize how we got here.
In the third week of Operation Protective Edge, the government is still waffling on its objectives. These keep morphing from one vague, vacuous formulation to another, as developments on the battlefield make each succeeding definition of the operation’s goals appear abysmally inadequate and ineffectual.
Initially, the government declared that all it aspired to was to “restore calm” – i.e.
to reinstate the status quo – and if Hamas would cease fire, so would Israel.
