The situation in Gaza is moving extremely fast and it is open war between Israel and the Islamofascist "Palestinians" who hate Israel, and the Western Media such as the BBC who also hate Israel.

The point which Dr Dore Gold makes in the following that the war in Gaza is now really all about defencible borders for Israel.

He concludes with this:

(an extract from "Deterrence against Hamas

Israel may have no choice but to establish security zones in Gaza"

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3271972,00.html


Now is the time

However strategic depth must be used to deny the most available weapons; there are tens of thousands of SA-7 shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles on the world market with a range of 5 kilometers or less. The 15-20 kilometer range advanced shoulder fired missiles of Russia and the US are for the most part under lock and key, because they also fear such missile reaching the Chechens and al-Qaeda. Similarly, the Palestinians have a few smuggled Katyusha rockets, but they have a seemingly endless supply of home-made Qassam rockets. The latter needs to be neutralized on an urgent basis.

The situation in Gaza is changing every day, as the eyes of the nation are fixed on the fate of Corporal Gilad Shalit. Israel may have no choice but to establish security zones in Gaza, as well, for the immediate future. This might not neutralize all threats but such zones can create difficulties for Hamas to use the most common threats in its arsenal. When I used to spend time with Ariel Sharon between 2000 and 2003, he used to say to me that Israel should never put itself in a position when facing a threat that it only has two choices: going to war or doing nothing. If it preserves defensible borders, Israel will not get into that untenable position. Unfortunately, Israel has allowed Sderot for months to be attacked and it has done nothing. Now is the time to make sure that this doesn’t happen again: By using deterrence by denial, so that Hamas' ability to threaten the people of Israel is finally seriously restricted, even after any Israeli military operation in Gaza is completed in the future.

Dr. Gold is the President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and served as Israel's ambassador to the United Nations