| The restoration of Israel`s deterrence factor is not a matter of increasing the security budget, as the security lobbyists would have us believe. Just two years ago, Israel`s army collapsed in the face of an enemy the size of a mere division ? in a war that Israel itself initiated. The problem was not budget. The problem was a loss of common goals that create our cohesiveness and national might. Our lack of deterrence is not due to a lack of tanks or fighter jets - it is due to the fact that our enemies think that our society is disintegrating and that the State of Israel is "weaker than spider webs," in the descriptive words of Nasrallah. A just society understands what it is doing in its land and can produce the power of deterrence that Israel used to have - when it believed that it was right. We will fight for our country because it is ours as explainet in 6 parts at : http://israelagainstterror.blogspot.com/2007/12/myths-hypotheses-and-facts-concerning_3280.html |
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