What price is the Jewish State willing to pay in order to reduce international pressure for a few months

Dr. Aaron Lerner
IMRA
Weekly Commentary
17 June '10

What price is the Jewish State willing to pay in order to reduce international pressure for a few months?

Repeat.

A few months.

Because, historically, that's the length of the "relief window" we typically enjoy after making a major concession.

A few months pass and the world asks "what have you done lately?"

But what about Operation Cast Lead in Gaza? Surely America and other key players allowed us to carry out the military campaign as a reward for withdrawing from the Gaza Strip a few years - not months - earlier.

Not really.

If one wants to attribute the foreign response to Operation Cast Lead to an Israeli concession, a considerably more relevant candidate would be the incredible concessions then PM Olmert was offering Mahmoud Abbas at the time.

Again. Israeli concessions only gain relief from pressure for a few months.

But surely, if we signed a "comprehensive peace" with the Palestinians and the Syrians, there would be nothing left to pressure Israel to do.

Wrong again.

A few months after the creation of a Palestinian state, we could readily find ourselves under pressure not to respond to Palestinian violations of the agreement that was the basis for the establishment of that state.

Not to mention pressure to make concessions to the Arab Israelis as they press for autonomy in the Galilee and elsewhere.

Temporary relief from pressure simply can't justify irrevocable concessions.

The concession advocates have to come up with a considerably better excuse.

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