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Source: https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-811436
Securing Israel's Borders Is Paramount
(Jerusalem Post) Ruth Wasserman Lande - Israel must never again allow a situation in which its citizens live hundreds of meters from potential terrorists, as was the case on Oct. 7. An impassable buffer zone of significant size must be enforced around Gaza, against Hizbullah in the north, and at Israel's narrow waist in the area north of Tel Aviv opposite Netanya. There is a 300 km. border between Israel and Jordan that, until recently, was secured almost exclusively by Jordanian security forces that have prevented attempts by terrorist elements to infiltrate into Israel. Iranian activity in Jordan and the subversion against the Hashemite monarchy have been going on for several years. A draconian buffer zone and an Israeli military presence in that area are an unquestionable necessity. The lack of enforcement against polygamy among Bedouin in the Negev has led in the past decades to an increase in the number of Palestinian women from Gaza and the southern Hebron Hills living in Israel and raising their children on the values they had learned in Gaza. While polygamy is prohibited by Israeli law, Sharia courts, which are authorized to rule on matrimonial and family law matters among Muslims, allow it. The writer is a fellow of the Misgav Institute for National Security & Zionist Strategy, a former Knesset member, and a former deputy Israeli ambassador to Egypt.