Will The World Ever Just Stand By And Let Israel Defend Herself?

From an article in Haaretz during the summer via Yoni the Blogger:

The realignment committee set up to evaluate the idea of a unilateral withdrawal from most of the West Bank presented senior political officials with its report in which they raised legal, security and economic difficulties that are likely to inhibit the plan's implementation.

A source with access to the report said its main conclusion is that Israel has no security solution to the threat of rockets launched from the West Bank against population centers. The report's authors assume that following a unilateral Israeli pullout from the West Bank, Hamas will takeover and deploy rockets. Currently, the only solution to the missile threat that the Israel Defense Forces has to offer is its actual presence in the territories and control of the high ground.

The irony is that while the world sees a Palestinian state as The solution to the Israeli-Arab conflict--and by extension peace and stability to the Middle East, Europe, the West etc--the fact remains that there is no reason to assume that the attacks would stop.

Israel will not be allowed to win--neither on the battlefield nor even in the halls of diplomacy:

Another conclusion is that Israel will not gain international recognition for an end to the occupation if it continues to hold significant portions of the West Bank. Similarly, it is doubtful whether such recognition would be forthcoming even if it unilaterally withdraws to the Green Line.

...The committee showed that Israel's two main interests are contradictory: on the one hand, Israel wishes to relinquish responsibility over the Palestinians as an occupying force; on the other, it would like to ensure that the territory it pulls out from is demilitarized.

In the rush for a solution, especially now that James Baker is on the scene, no one seems to notice that the Kassams being launched from Gaza--even as a peace treaty was agreed to that they would stop--is but a preview of what Israel would face should a Palestinian state in fact be created.

And if the West cries foul now when Israel goes into Gaza to defend her citizens, what can we expect will be the reaction should the attacks come from within a sovereign Palestinian state?

Will the world ever be willing to just stand by and let Israel defend herself?

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