Weekly Commentary: Once again the timing could have been much worse for us

Dr. Aaron Lerner
IMRA
Weekly Commentary
10 February '11

Once again the timing could have been much worse for us.

Just imagine how much more complicated and dangerous the situation would have been if Egyptian security forces were deployed today in the Gaza Strip while Jordanian troops bivouacked next door to Kfar Sava. Sure it sounds ridiculous today, but that’s what Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman advocated for years and he was hardly alone. All kinds of experts and politicians were pushing such a move.

Why “once again”?

If not for the Second Lebanon War, the IDF today would be a skeleton force stripped of vital forces and left with many units that hadn’t held a serious exercise in years (so much so that the soldiers no longer even remembered how to operate their equipment).

If not for Yasser Arafat’s refusal to behave himself from the very start of Oslo we could just as easily be facing a crisis today with a sovereign Palestinian terror state poised to exploit the opportunity to complete the destruction of the Jewish State.

The same could be said for Syria, where two generations of Assads fortunately refused to do a “Sadat” and get the Golan Heights in return for a visit to Jerusalem and speech at the Knesset.

And the list goes on.

And so, for all the loss of sleep developments in Egypt are causing us today, it can still definitely be said that the timing could have been much worse for us.

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