INTO THE FRAY - WHAT MUST BE DONE: PART 1 – BACK TO BASICS

For your perusal, the latest edition of INTO THE FRAY in the weekend Jerusalem Post

 WHAT MUST BE DONE: PART 1 – BACK TO BASICS 

 www.jpost.com/Opinion/Into-the-fray-What-must-be-done-Part-1-Back-to-basics-426114 

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 With each Judeocidal attack by hate-crazed Arabs, an eerie sense of déjà vu grows stronger.

 “The time for speeches has come to an end. Netanyahu was reelected on security and strength, and both of these must be promises fulfilled before even more blood runs red on Israeli soil.    –Annika Hernroth-Rothstein, “Status quo vadis?” The Jerusalem Post, October 10 

It has become abundantly clear that our political class has no plan of reaction in this regard – and thus no ability–to guide the country toward a more internally secure future... Neither the Right nor the Left has any answers. – Charles Bybelezer, “End the terror now!” The Jerusalem Post, October 11 

These excerpts from recent articles by two ardent young Israel advocates reflect the growing disillusionment with the political establishment, which has adopted “muddling through” (aka “managing the conflict”) as its preferred – indeed, only, strategy in dealing with Arab enmity toward the Jewish state.

Continued adherence to this pattern of behavior will end badly – very badly. Indeed, it will inevitably precipitate the very spirals of escalating violence its adoption was supposed to avert.

With every passing day, the bloody events across the country this month are increasingly reminiscent of those in an earlier October, a decade and a half ago – October 2000…It is as if, for the last 15 years, successive governments have lead the country in a full circle, like someone lost in a forest, who after days of wandering, finds himself back at the very spot he started out from…”

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MS