Give War A Chance
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 Major IDF drill to simulate large-scale W. Bank clashes By Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondents Last update - 03:14 13/11/2007 www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/923254.htmlThe Israel Defense Forces will conduct a major exercise next week simulating
a widespread escalation of Israeli-Palestinian fighting in the West Bank.However, the only actual escalation on Monday was in internal Palestinian
fighting: At least seven people were killed and 55 wounded in exchanges of
fire between Hamas forces and Fatah supporters in the Gaza Strip. All of the
fatalities were either Fatah members or passersby. Palestinian Authority
Chairman Mahmoud Abbas blamed Hamas, terming its actions "an abominable
crime."Though the drill will be taking place a week before the Annapolis
conference, the timing is apparently coincidental: It was scheduled back in
July, when the date of the U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace conference was not
yet known.The exercise is not an official preparation in case talks at Annapolis fail,
though senior IDF officers have been predicting for weeks that the
conference has little chance of succeeding. Rather, it simulates a scenario
in which terrorist organizations launch a massive wave of attacks prior to
the conference in order to ensure its failure. The scenario posits this
campaign being accompanied by widespread demonstrations in the West Bank. It
also posits the IDF having limited forces with which to respond, due to
ongoing tensions on the Syrian and Gazan borders.Exercise scenarios are often deliberately exaggerated, and do not
necessarily reflect what the IDF expects to happen. However, several major
exercises in the past have ended up accurately anticipating reality. In June
2006, for instance, an IDF exercise posited the abduction of a soldier to
Gaza closely followed by the abduction of other soldiers to Lebanon. Later
that month, Gilad Shalit was indeed kidnapped to Gaza, after which Ehud
Goldwasser and Eldad Regev were kidnapped to Lebanon in July.
If the Palestinians goal is peace, then why is their a need for the IDF to run an exercise with the scenario of wide spread violence in Judea and Samaria if the summit in Annapolis should not bring the desired results that the Palestinians seek.
This is further evidence that what the Palestinians seek is not peace, but more land under their control. Having the land under their control allows them to achieve two things.
First it weakens Israel's claim on our land. If we are willing to give up a part of Judea and Samaria then why not all of Judea and Samaria. If Israel is willing to retreat from Judea and Samaria. Then why not select neighborhoods in east Jerusalem and if yes to this then why not the Temple Mount. If yes to the Temple Mount then why not the Kotel, etc.
Their is no end to the demands of the Americans and Palestinians, come on Jews just give up a little more of the land that G-D gave you. What, you refuse to give up any more land, it then becomes the Jews don't want peace.
Second by removing the IDF from the areas that we retreat from Israel looses security control of these areas allowing the terrorist free reign to plan and carry out more attacks against the Jews of Israel.
Let the Americans and Palestinians understand very clearly, this Jew does not want your peace. According to recent polls neither does 65% of the Israeli population.
I support the actions of the IDF and wish that the exercise was not just how to respond to wide spread violence on the part of the Palestinians, I wish that the goals of the action would be to plan for war with the Palestinians, lets end this now, once and for all. Again understand that I am making my call even though my children will be right in the thick of it should we go to war, but if Israel seeks to obtain security and an end of terrorism then this path is only by waging war first.
