Weekly Commentary: What price is the Jewish State willing to pay in order to
reduce international pressure for a few months

Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 17 June 2010

What price is the Jewish State willing to pay in order to reduce
international pressure for a few months?

Repeat.

A few months.

Because, historically, that's the length of the "relief window" we typically
enjoy after making a major concession.

A few months pass and the world asks "what have you done lately?"

But what about Operation Cast Lead in Gaza? Surely America and other key
players allowed us to carry out the military campaign as a reward for
withdrawing from the Gaza Strip a few years - not months - earlier.

Not really.

If one wants to attribute the foreign response to Operation Cast Lead to an
Israeli concession, a considerably more relevant candidate would be the
incredible concessions then PM Olmert was offering Mahmoud Abbas at the
time.

Again. Israeli concessions only gain relief from pressure for a few months.

But surely, if we signed a "comprehensive peace" with the Palestinians and
the Syrians, there would be nothing left to pressure Israel to do.

Wrong again.

A few months after the creation of a Palestinian state, we could readily
find ourselves under pressure not to respond to Palestinian violations of
the agreement that was the basis for the establishment of that state.

Not to mention pressure to make concessions to the Arab Israelis as they
press for autonomy in the Galilee and elsewhere.

Temporary relief from pressure simply can't justify irrevocable concessions.

The concession advocates have to come up with a considerably better excuse.

Dr. Aaron Lerner, Director IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis)
(Mail POB 982 Kfar Sava)
Tel 972-9-7604719/Fax 972-3-7255730