What's an army to do when its political echelon makes it fight with its hands tied behind its back?
It builds a bypass road. That's what's going on in the southern sector of Judea between Gush Etzion and Kiryat Arba.
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.
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