Re: Israel and the Jewish schism


"Eliyahu" <lrooff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Mar 13, 7:35 pm, "Jim F." <m...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"
In Pape's opinion, the recent waves of suicide terrorism appears to be
more
of a
strategy designed to force the West to withdraw its military
from the Middle East and Central Asia. As long as the
US and its allies maintain a military presence in the region, suicide
terrorism will continue. Pape therefore recommends that the US and its
allies establish bases outside the region, maintain readiness,
and focus on strengthening homeland security.

Jim F.

And then the Arabs will be content to leave Israel alone and stop the
suicide bombings? I don't think so...

Actually, Eliyahu, if you had read through the "Strategic Logic of
Terrorism"
paper, you would see that he did address, or attempt to address this issue.
He wrote:

"Given the limits of offense and of concessions, homeland
security and defensive efforts generally must be a
core part of any solution. Undermining the feasibility
of suicide terrorism is a difficult task. After all, a major
advantage of suicide attack is that it is more difficult
to prevent than other types of attack. However, the
difficulty of achieving perfect security should not keep
us from taking serious measures to prevent wouldbe
terrorists from easily entering their target society."

"As Chaim Kaufmann (1996) has shown, even intense
ethnic civil wars can often be stopped by demographic
separation because it greatly reduces both means and
incentives for the sides to attack each other. This logic
may apply with even more force to the related problem
of suicide terrorism, since, for suicide attackers, gaining
physical access to the general area of the target is the
only genuinely demanding part of an operation, and
as we have seen, resentment of foreign occupation of
their national homeland is a key part of the motive for
suicide terrorism."

"The requirements for demographic separation depend
on geographic and other circumstances that may
not be attainable in all cases. For example, much of
Israel's difficulty in containing suicide terrorism derives
from the deeply intermixed settlement patterns
of the West Bank and Gaza, which make the effective
length of the border between Palestinian and Jewish
settled areas practically infinite and have rendered even
very intensive Israeli border control efforts ineffective
(Kaufmann 1998). As a result, territorial concessions
could well encourage terrorists leaders to strive for
still greater gains while greater repression may only
exacerbate the conditions of occupation that cultivate
more recruits for terrorist organizations. Instead, the
best course to improve Israel's security may well be a
combined strategy: abandoning territory on the West
Bank along with an actual wall that physically separates
the populations."




Eliyahu



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