Yoran Ettinger's Suggestions on Stopping Pal. Terror

From an article of his:

The track record of the past 12 years behooves Israel to drastically alter its war on Palestinian terrorism:

1. Ending moral ambivalence (which dresses a terror-authority like a partner for peace), and undermining the legitimacy of that authority (PA), constitute a prerequisite for strategic clarity and for a victory on the battlefield.

2. Uprooting hate-education from PA's kindergartens, elementary schools, universities, mosques and official media (which constitutes the manufacturing-line of homicide-bombers and reflects PA's strategy) is essential, if terror is to be disconnected from its life line.

3. Swift, offensive, comprehensive and preventive war on the terrorists' own breeding ground, not a protracted war of attrition, targeted killing, limited military operations, defensive and reactive tactics. Flexing a disproportional military muscle would restore Israel's long term deterrence posture.

4. Destruction of the political–ideological–financial infrastructure that feeds the fire of terrorism – and bringing the enemy to submission - rather than a series of ceasefires and coexistence with terrorism.

5. Wars are not won by remote control (artillery, missiles, air force), but rather by controlling the ground and the people that breed terror.

6. Disengaging Israel's military and secret service from Gaza (1994) and the towns of Judea and Samaria (1994-2002), and transferring control to the PA, added fuel to the fire of Palestinian terrorism. Reengaging the IDF and the Secret Service with the towns in Judea and Samaria (since 2003) has reduced terrorism by 90%! Control of terrorists' breeding ground significantly reduces their ability to plan, operate, incite, enlist, train, manufacture and smuggle terrorist hardware. It also upgrades Israel's capabilities of deterrence, intelligence-gathering, prevention and retaliation.

7. The war on anti-Israel terrorism must not be subcontracted to the PA, Quartet, Egypt, US, Italian inspectors or Turkish security guards. Terrorism is not an object to complain about, but rather an object to be demolished, while displaying "zero tolerance" toward any potential expression of terrorism at its ebb.

8. No additional accords should be concluded with an authority, which has become the role-model of systematic and murderous abrogation of all commitments made to Arabs, to the US and to Israel. One does not negotiate with terrorists; one eliminates terrorists, especially those whose inner philosophical truth is consistent with the destruction of one's own state.

9. The Geneva Convention determines that "human shields" do not preclude the right of self-defense. It stipulates that the responsibility for civilian casualties is clearly at the door step of terrorists who abuse Palestinian civilians as "human shields".

10. A country that allows terrorists to determine the course of its national agenda is doomed to oblivion.