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Source: http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/in-favor-of-a-gaza-defensive-shield-1.356090
A Gaza "Defensive Shield" Operation?
(Ha'aretz) Amiel Ungar - Former National Security Adviser Maj. Gen. (res.) Giora Eiland said last week that Israel should consider implementing a "Defensive Shield"-like operation in Gaza. Defensive Shield was launched in the West Bank after the Park Hotel seder atrocity on March 27, 2002, when a homicide bomber massacred 30 Israelis at the Netanya hotel. Defensive Shield radically changed the security equation by pulverizing Arafat's terror apparatus, reviving Israel's intelligence access, and creating a military situation whereby small elite squads can snatch wanted terrorists without causing collateral damage. The change has obviously been extremely beneficial to Israeli security, but it also helped fuel the current Palestinian prosperity that resulted once the grip of rival terror warlords was broken.