{"id":1836,"date":"2006-10-20T10:19:57","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T08:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/20\/third-parties-simply-cannot-be-relied-upon-for-jewish-states-security-3\/"},"modified":"2006-10-20T10:23:43","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T08:23:43","slug":"third-parties-simply-cannot-be-relied-upon-for-jewish-states-security-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/20\/third-parties-simply-cannot-be-relied-upon-for-jewish-states-security-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Axiomatic: Third Parties Simply Cannot Be Relied Upon for Jewish State&#8217;s Security&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imra.org.il\/story.php3?id=31284\"><strong>Wake Up Call: Dumbo Crashes In Gaza,  by Aaron Lerner<\/strong><\/a>    (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imra.org.il \">Independent Media Research and Analysis<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>For context, <\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/19\/should-israel-strike-now-in-gaza\/\"><strong>click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Full Text;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>It just doesn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>Years of working papers, conferences, arrangements and photo ops have failed to obviate Israel&#8217;s need to keep the Gaza Strip and West Bank within the Jewish State&#8217;s security envelope. As developments in the Gaza Strip prove once again, third parties simply cannot be relied upon to take Israel&#8217;s place in this critical matter.<\/p>\n<p>Inclusion in the security envelope may not be a sufficient condition for stability and security &#8211; but it certainly is a necessary one.<\/p>\n<p>As reports streamed in today about the massive Palestinian war preparations taking place in the Gaza Strip &#8211; made possible thanks to Israel&#8217;s retreat from the Philadelphi Corridor that runs between Egyptian Sinai and Gaza, recently retired former head of Israel&#8217;s National Security Council, Maj-Gen Giora Eiland, patiently defended the move &#8211; noting that retreat from Gaza required also abandoning that border area.<\/p>\n<p>Now it is possible to understand how people leaped from the World Trade Center to escape the unbearable heat, but Israel&#8217;s presence in the Gaza strip was hardly a situation that required retreat at all costs.<\/p>\n<p>But instead of honestly dealing with this reality, Eiland and the other retreat supporters hypothesized that a series of international, regional and local arrangements could somehow effectively take the place of Israeli control.<\/p>\n<p>Retreat supporters had to embrace this leap of faith because otherwise<br \/>\nretreat was impossible.<\/p>\n<p>But reality is reality. Elephants can&#8217;t fly and all the photo ops in the world can&#8217;t change that.<\/p>\n<p>Dumbo crashed in Gaza but the rhetoric continues about a sovereign<br \/>\nPalestinian state living side by side in peace with Israel.<\/p>\n<p>But a key element of Palestinian sovereignty would be its removal from the Israeli security envelope.<\/p>\n<p>Retreat and Palestinian sovereignty advocates tend to try to dismiss their detractors by challenging them to propose an alternative that would achieve &#8220;peace&#8221; but it is a hollow argument.<\/p>\n<p>The onus, however, is on the sovereignty advocates to demonstrate that their leaps of faith won&#8217;t keep on slamming us into the pavement. <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Hat Tip to<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/shilohmusings.blogspot.com\"><strong>Batya of Shilomuse. <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wake Up Call: Dumbo Crashes In Gaza, by Aaron Lerner (Independent Media Research and Analysis) For context, click here. Full Text; It just doesn&#8217;t work. Years of working papers, conferences, arrangements and photo ops have failed to obviate Israel&#8217;s need to keep the Gaza Strip and West Bank within the Jewish State&#8217;s security envelope. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}