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Israel's Enemies Smell Weakness
[San Antonio Express-News] Jonathan Gurwitz - When adversaries perceive each other as being strong, peace can prevail even though they might be armed to the teeth. History books are filled with descriptions of decisions to actually go to war that were made because adversaries misjudged their own strengths or their enemies' weaknesses. The Israeli withdrawal from Gaza during the summer of 2005 should rationally have been seen as a step toward peace. Instead, Israel's enemies once again interpreted the withdrawal as a manifestation of vulnerability. The great danger is that Israel's enemies in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran might actually believe their own bombastic pronouncements about eliminating the Zionist entity.