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What Israel Could Learn from the Gaza Kidnap Drama
(TIME) Tony Karon - It took less than a year for Olmert to send the Israeli military back into Gaza after withdrawing from the territory last August. They're not planning to stay, of course - the army is there in response to the kidnapping of a 19-year-old corporal, and also to put a stop to rocket fire from northern Gaza into Israeli territory. Even if they do retreat again from Gaza in a matter of days or weeks, the current dynamic in the Palestinian territories suggests they'll inevitably be back. Absent any agreement with a Palestinian government that is willing and able to enforce order, militants will continue to attack Israel.