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Weekly Commentary
14 April '11
If DM Ehud Barak wants to imply that the Israelis living near Gaza are a bunch of crybabies, as he seemed to say in his interview on Israel Radio this week, that’s his business.
But he has no right to claim that the situation is almost an unavoidable norm.
Barak argued that there were rocket and mortar attacks from Gaza even before Israel retreated with the clear implication that some level of terror was inevitable.
Let’s not even get into a numbers game comparing pre and post retreat data (though the situation has worsened).
Ehud Barak might have had some kind of point if the IDF had been truly deployed to control the Gaza Strip before the retreat. But that was hardly the case.
A simple illustration: Probably the most common response of the IDF to a significant security incident in the years before the retreat was to temporarily set up inspection points at key places on the roads passing from the Sinai border area up to Gaza City. For a few days weapons, ammunition, explosives and other contraband smuggled in from Egypt could not make it very far into the Gaza Strip thanks to the inspections. But then, almost as quickly as the security incident was forgotten, the security measures were lifted and the terror highway bounced back into operation.
No.
The security situation was anything but inevitable.
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Yes because Israeli officialdom put pleasing international opinion above protecting the lives and safety of their own citizens.
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But we'll never hear the advocates of the Gaza Disengagement say we were wrong, it didn't work and Israel is in more danger than ever.
Its not the Israeli elite that is paying the price of Ariel Sharon's Last Folly.