By Dr. Aaron Lerner
October 26, 2007
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The situation in the Gaza Strip is absolutely intolerable. And it is getting worse by the day.
Something must be done to address the clear and present danger that the ever strengthening Gaza terror-army represents both in terms of its daily assaults on Israeli targets and its potential to cause catastrophic damage in the very near future in action either alone or in coordination with other enemies of the Jewish State.
One can argue that marginally reducing energy supplies to the Gaza Strip may somehow turn rank and file Palestinians against the Qassam launchers.
But if these sanctions are imposed, and then rolled back in response to international pressure, the move will be counter productive.
I sincerely hope that the people behind this tactic have gone to the trouble to think through the possible scenarios. Not just the first 24 hours or even the first week -- but how this could play through November, the Annapolis conference, and beyond.
What, though, is the purpose of the exercise?
Is Israel's goal simply a temporary halt to rocket fire -- as implied by those who link the sanctions to the Qassam and mortar fire imply?
It shouldn't be.
It cannot be.
Again. We are talking about a Palestinian army being flooded with weapons, explosives and ammunition from Egypt that is building up and training day in and day out in the Gaza Strip.
The very existence of this army is a clear and present danger.
This Palestinian army has to be destroyed.
That's destroyed.
Not given a timeout to grow even more dangerous.
If dimming the lights in Gaza somehow leads to a temporary halt in the rocket attacks that's great.
But either way, the Palestinian terror army must be destroyed.
And it is going to take a lot more than sanctions to do that.
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