Don’t invade Gaza Strip

[oberliner]

Just when Defense Minister Ehud Barak was joking with the GOC Southern Command during Thursday’s improvised press conference on the Egypt border, showing him with odd glee where the camera was positioned, the police’s anti-terrorism unit lost one of its top fighters. That was a symbolic incident that illustrated the limits of power.

The defense minister was indeed confident in the army’s ability to defeat the terrorists, yet given the tough topographic conditions, with terrorists ambushing the troops while hiding between rocks and across the border, there is no significance whatsoever to the army’s strength or to its technological prowess. There is also no significance to the defense minister’s high spirits.

When people fire at each other, we see casualties on both sides. Always. This is precisely why Israel must aim, as much as is possible, to stay away from these situations.

Moreover, the last thing Israel needs at this time is to enable the whole Arab world to unite. The last thing Israel needs now is to allow the Arab world to divert the discussion away from Syrian President Bashar Assad’s despicable acts against his own countrymen and direct it at IDF troops operating in Gaza.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4112144,00.html

[Taverner]

1. Agreed nt

[azurnoir]

2. Nice little article but one should really read the talkbacks to

get a feeling for how well it was received

[oberliner]

5. I wouldn't take the talkbacks as any such indication

Tends to not be particularly representative.

[Riftaxe]

3. "...whole Arab world to unite."

:rofl:

[LeftishBrit]

4. Excellent article