{"id":2627,"date":"2007-05-30T14:46:28","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T12:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/30\/celebrating-alternatives-to-olmerts-too-tired-surrender\/"},"modified":"2007-05-30T14:46:28","modified_gmt":"2007-05-30T12:46:28","slug":"celebrating-alternatives-to-olmerts-too-tired-surrender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/30\/celebrating-alternatives-to-olmerts-too-tired-surrender\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Alternatives to Olmert&#8217;s &#8220;Too Tired&#8221; Surrender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imra.org.il\/story.php3?id=34471\"><strong>Weekly Commentary: Continuing the Struggle, by Dr. Aaron Lerner<\/strong> <\/a>    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imra.org.il\/\">(IMRA)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Excerpts;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Time and again retreat proponents have claimed that the <\/strong>  <a href=\"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/index.php?s=too+tired\"><strong>people are tired and cannot sustain the struggle<\/strong><\/a> <strong>when in truth it was the leadership that failed a public willing to endure great sacrifices. A public that has no illusions about the viability of instant or even permanent solutions but instead realizes that the struggle for freedom is an ongoing exercise worth the battle.<\/p>\n<p>Could Operation X, no matter its scope, put a permanent end to the terror threat in the Gaza Strip?<\/p>\n<p>Of course not.<\/p>\n<p>But that isn&#8217;t the question at hand.<\/p>\n<p>The question is bringing down the operational capabilities of the terrorists to a manageable level.<\/p>\n<p>Operation Defensive Shield didn&#8217;t eradicate terror in the West Bank, but it created a situation under which Israeli security forces could follow up with ongoing &#8220;mowing&#8221; operations. Yes, as the retreat proponent note, every terrorist leader taken off the board is soon replaced by another, but the turnover serves to limit both their number and capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Will my children&#8217;s children also have to worry when their children go off to serve?<\/p>\n<p>Quite possibly.<\/p>\n<p>But I don&#8217;t mourn the option. I celebrate that there is a viable vibrant alternative to surrender.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekly Commentary: Continuing the Struggle, by Dr. Aaron Lerner (IMRA) Excerpts; Time and again retreat proponents have claimed that the people are tired and cannot sustain the struggle when in truth it was the leadership that failed a public willing to endure great sacrifices. A public that has no illusions about the viability of instant [&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-2627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627","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=2627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}