IDF Makes 13 Overnight Arrests in the West Bank
Bomb Thrown at Israeli Car in W. Bank; No Damage
IDF Fires Shells in Gaza Strip after Kassam Attack
IDF Continues to Target Northern Gaza Roads and Fields
The IDF’s Offensive Doctrine Is Nosediving
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“‘In case you didn’t know, the IDF’s strategic doctrine is still offensive. IDF Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz said so just this week. And it’s good that he did, because up until now, the way the IDF has been annihilating the Kassam rocket strikes out of the Gaza Strip has been mainly with robust and aggressive verbal threats, occasionally punctuated by artillery rounds blasting empty sand dunes – or propaganda leaflets dropped by combat aircraft.‘”
“‘The legitimacy of offensive action – and we are part of an international community of norms- is on the decline,” Halutz said in a Tel Aviv conference Tuesday.'”
“This was a week when the IDF chief basically admitted that the military was better at halting Kassam rocket attacks on strategic installations than it was at preventing them against population centers. But even this statement seemed premature, as the Palestinians continued to deny the IDF’s ‘no-go’ zone and fired at least two dozen Kassam rockets into Israel.”