{"id":1023,"date":"2006-03-29T23:56:45","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T21:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/29\/try-strength-not-fatigue\/"},"modified":"2006-03-29T23:57:57","modified_gmt":"2006-03-29T21:57:57","slug":"try-strength-not-fatigue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/29\/try-strength-not-fatigue\/","title":{"rendered":"Try Strength, Not Fatigue …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Try Victory, by Daniel Pipes<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Excerpts;<\/p>\n

As Israelis went to the polls, not one of the leading parties offered the option of winning the war against the Palestinians. It’s a striking and dangerous lacuna. <\/p>\n

Rather than seek victory, Israelis have developed a lengthy menu of approaches to manage the conflict. These include: <\/p>\n

•Unilateralism (building a barrier, partial withdrawals): The current policy, as espoused by Ariel Sharon, Ehud Olmert, and the Kadima Party. <\/p>\n

•Lease for 99 years the land under Israeli towns on the West Bank: The Labor Party of Amir Peretz. <\/p>\n

• Palestinian economic development: Shimon Peres. <\/p>\n

•Territorial compromise: The premise of Oslo diplomacy, as initiated by Yitzhak Rabin. <\/p>\n

•Outside funding for the Palestinians (on the Marshall Plan model): U.S. Representative Henry Hyde. <\/p>\n

•Retreat to the 1967 borders: Israel’s far Left. <\/p>\n

•Push the Palestinians to develop good government: Natan Sharansky (and President George W. Bush). <\/p>\n

•Insist that Jordan is Palestine: Israel’s Right. <\/p>\n

•Transfer the Palestinians out of the West Bank: Israel’s far Right. <\/p>\n

These many approaches are very different in spirit and mutually exclusive. But they have a key element in common. All manage the conflict without resolving it. All ignore the need to defeat Palestinian rejectionism. All seek to finesse war rather than win it. <\/p>\n

FOR AN outside observer who hopes for Arab acceptance of Israel sooner rather than later, this avoidance of the one winning strategy prompts a certain frustration, one that’s the more profound on recalling how brilliantly the Israelis early on understood their war goals. <\/p>\n

Fortunately, at least one prominent Israeli politician advocates Israeli victory over the Palestinians. Uzi Landau notes simply that “when you’re in a war you want to win the war.” He had hoped to lead the Likud in yesterday’s elections but failed to win anything approaching a majority in his party and was ranked fourteenth on the Knesset list, not even high enough to guarantee him a parliamentary seat. With Likud itself expected to get under 15 percent of the popular vote, it is clear how deeply unpopular Israelis presently find the idea of winning their war.<\/p>\n

And so, they experiment with compromise, unilateralism, enriching their enemies, and other schemes. But as Douglas MacArthur observed, “In war, there is no substitute for victory.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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