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The Rockets from Gaza and the Peace Process


(New York Post) Jonathan S. Tobin - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is willing to negotiate. But the ordeal Israelis have just undergone with 460 rockets launched from Gaza this week illustrates why the majority of his people have no appetite for a withdrawal from the West Bank under the current circumstances. Most Israelis understand that if their army gives up security control of the West Bank, the terrible dilemma they are facing in Gaza will be replicated in the far larger and more strategic territory. Imagine a West Bank as armed and as dangerous as Gaza is now - and recognized by the rest of the world as a sovereign state that Israel wouldn't be free to attack - and you see what most Israelis think would be the only logical outcome.
2018-11-16 00:00:00
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