Gush Etzion: IDF to capitulate to terror
A senior IDF officer said that since the IDF is unable to stop the terrorist attacks on Route 60, between the Gush Etzion Junction and Kiryat Arba (Hebron), and specifically the section that passes by the Arab villages of El Arub and Beit Ummar, the army will instead be building a bypass road and a bridge, The Jewish Press was told by reliable sources.
Etzion Brigade commander Col. Yaniv Elalouf said in a closed meeting with local residents of Efrat that the bypass road would move Israeli traffic around 200-300 meters away from El Arub and 400 meters away away from Beit Umar. The road would also be raised on a bridge in that section, and come out near Carmei Tzur.
The officer said that the current proximity of Arab houses to the main highway provides the terrorists with the cover needed to to easily attack Israeli motorists and then quickly escape. By building a bypass bridge and road, the terrorists would be forced out into an open area to commit their terror attacks (or use longer range weapons).
The officer estimated that the road would be finished within a year to a year and a half.So until then, those of you who live south of Gush Etzion off Route 60 are sitting ducks. I'm sure that's making you feel all warm and fuzzy....
The officer said that the road is not being built because we are afraid, but because the IDF is unable to contain the attacks.And 'we will know how to respond.' What a load of crap. The road is being built because the government won't let the IDF contain the attacks. Otherwise, we're in deeper trouble than I believe we are. Maybe the IDF had better admit that's the case rather than projecting an image of weakness.
The road will likely cost millions of dollars to build, at a time when the government budget in general and the IDF portion of it in particular are being cut. But there’s a more profound cost to this decision, in morale and in the continued IDF failed strategy of dealing with terrorism in Judea and Samaria.
No one is doubting any longer that a full-fledged third intifada has been brewing there, encouraged by statements made by visiting President Barack Obama, as well as more recent statements by visiting Secretary of State John Kerry. But the IDF’s approach to this acute problem of lawlessness and murder, is to name it “popular terrorism” — meaning it is somehow legitimized by the fact that a lot of Arabs support it — and to invent mad plots of “containing” it.Indeed. Read the whole thing.
Labels: Gush Etzion, Hebron, Palestinian terrorism, stone throwers
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:01 PM
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