Israel threatened Saturday to deliver an unprecedentedly harsh response to any attacks from Gaza after Israeli troops quit the territory next week and hand it over to the Palestinians.
'An hour after we leave the field, there will be a strategic change ... in the nature of our response to even an attempt at terror,' Maj. Gen. Yisrael Ziv, the military's chief of operations, told Israel Radio. 'We shall have a far more extreme reaction to any attempt.'
Well, some people might consider those as fighting words or are they but words of bluster?
One of the main selling points of disengagement was that handing over title of Gaza to the Palestinian Authority would then permit Israel to use its military might as it had not done previously.
This is BS.
It didn't use its might because it feared world opinion and will not do so because of same. The same people who were afraid then are the same people with the same fears now.
Already someone has said that only if terror exacts blood will Israel respond and then, only in proportion to the blood shed.
This is the pale face of Israel security.
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