Israel Matzav

The LEGO state

During 1996, when we had two suicide bombings on buses within the space of a week, one of my sons made up a game he called Pigua (Terror Attack). He would construct elaborate street scenes using his LEGO's, and then when they were as complicated as they could get, he would wipe them out with one fell swoop.

Fifteen years have gone by since then, and now Giulio Meotti tells us that the Israeli government is on the verge of teaching Israeli children to play a new game called Geirush (Expulsion), in which Israeli homes will be destroyed by the government (God forbid) in one fell swoop, as if they were made from LEGO.

The outposts control strategic points for the IDF. The Jewish residents thought that the great wave of terrorism had finally convinced everyone to follow their path, the Jewish presence in the territories at all costs.

Beyond these communities you have Jordan, Iraq and Iran. Can Israel imagine having rockets deployed five hundred meters from the Ben Gurion Airport?

Haifa has already been bombed by Hizbullah, as have Ashdod and Ashkelon by Hamas. The citizens of the Judea and Samaria communities are the edge of a people besieged and tormented by terror.

“If there are no outposts, the army isn’t allowed to stay in the region”, tells me Lt. Col. Yitzhak Shadmi, one of the leader of the regional council of Judea and Samarai: “And if the IDF leaves the hills, what will happen in case of a regional war between Israel, Iran and Syria?”.

From the beginning of the renewal of Jewish settlement, the general idea was that the army would operate and defend from the same locations in which there were Jewish residents. If there was no Jewish settlement to defend, the army and the government would find any excuse to retreat.

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Labels: Judea and Samaria, outposts

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 6:29 AM