Islamic Jihad is reading Israeli analyses

Elder of Ziyon
04 May '10

The Islamic Jihad-linked Palestine Today reproduces and translates a paper from the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies on how Israel should react to Palestinian Arab "resistance."

The paper, by Michael Milstein, is titled "The Challenge of al-Muqawama (Resistance) to Israel."

While it is not surprising that Islamic Jihad or other terror groups would be keenly interested in any Israeli military analysis, I have never seen such an article in Arabic before.

For example, one section which reads like a playbook for the Gaza operation reads:

The preferred policy (or more precisely, the lesser of the evils) is that
of a relatively extensive military campaign once every few years. The scope of the campaign and its frequency are dictated by the intensity of the threat posed by the elements of resistance, the nature of the battlefield, and the regional and international circumstances prevailing at the time. However, in every scenario it is crucial that Israel’s military response be disproportionate, so as to demonstrate to the enemy the heavy cost inherent in every attempt to undermine the security of Israel’s regional sphere. Such a step must not last long, but must focus on causing extensive damage to the leaderships of the resistance organizations (both at the military and the political echelons) and the various infrastructures under their auspices (including civilian). Such a step may well be accompanied by extensive damage to the Israeli home front, and also by extensive damage – unintentional, of course – to the enemy’s civilian sphere.

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