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Thursday, January 1, 2009 Weekly Commentary: Current situation direct result of bad policy

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Any attempt by the U.S, Europe or the UN to limit Israeli military freedom of action should be prevented!

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Dr. Aaron Lerner

 

The Palestinian rockets slamming into Ashdod and Beersheba were not
inevitable.

They are the direct result of a long history of bad left wing policy
recommendations that were unfortunately implemented by a series of Israeli
governments.

Before Yasser Arafat was welcomed into Gaza and the West Bank by the
geniuses who came up with Oslo, the little terror that there was consisted
mostly of knifing incidents and in the highly unusual event of a shooting
incident, the Palestinian gunmen were severely handicapped by a lack of
training and experience. And while there was griping in the Israeli left
about the "cost of the occupation," the size of the forces deployed in Gaza
and the West Bank to maintain security were fairly small.

It was only thanks to Oslo that the security situation of the Jewish
communities in the Gaza Strip deteriorated - leading in turn for a need for
more forces and pressure to withdraw.

And it was only thanks to Oslo that elementary security interests (control
of weapons smuggling and manufacture, etc.) in Gaza took the back seat to
political and "diplomatic" considerations.

It was only thanks to the retreat from the Gaza Strip that Hamas and others
were enabled to launch a massive unprecedented arming program.

And it was thanks to the "cease-fire" that Hamas and others were able to
accelerate this process to the level were face today.

At each step of the way, the left wing policy advocates refused to either
concede or learn from past mistakes.

And it is no different today, as even those in the Left who recognize the
need for a strong IDF response in the current conflict with Hamas push for a
variety of house-of-cards arrangements to conclude this episode.

No remorse. No shame. No modesty.

They won't change.

One can only hope that the results of the upcoming Knesset elections takes
them out of the decision making process.

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Dr. Aaron Lerner, Director IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis)
(Mail POB 982 Kfar Sava)
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