Now to implement them. The Americans are only worried about their war in Iraq & are ready to sacrifice Israel to atchieve their goals in Iraq. We will not be the fall guy for Bush, & we must make him aware of this. No matter what we do we will be condemed by the world, so lets just do it. We demand that our elected officials do their jobs & protect us!

When you're damned if you do and you're damed if you don't you might as well just DO!

Obviously the US top priority now is Iraq and it seems that the US opposing anything further harming the Iraqi operations and US troops. So the question is if and when should Israel act without satisfactory overt or tacit US consent.

just do it NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW !!!!

does anyone not know that there are tunnels galore under the border and anyone and anything within tunneling reach will be blown sky high? ariel sharon understood this, which is part of the reason he agreed to evacuate it instead of giving the terrorists the satisfaction of killing so many soldiers until israel would be forced to leave. option B won't work because the world will be able to level the "nazi" charge at israel (in ghettoizing palestinians) more effectively, and israel cannot afford to do that, politically. it has nothing to do with reality, only the perception created by the hostile international press. israel has a lot of political clout right now and the politicians want to exploit that to its limit. unfortunately, that carries with it a price which those under fire are feeling.

Declare gasa seperate from Isreal.Then you have a repeat of lebanon.un none peace keeping force.

Agree with anything or not, you're clearly someone who thinks before they act.

Go back to Arabia, you freaking squatter and land thief.

Cut off Water and Electricity, and also take a buffer zone.in North I believe we control both electricty and Water from Israel if I am not mistakened.

You came from the desert to conquer the world. You conquered the Holy land. Now go back to your desert homes in Arabia!

Very very interesting and informative article. TY DB

Better ideas than I've heard from anyone else - certainly much better than the drivel coming from official circles in gov't. or rather, what passes for a gov't. Why aren't qualified people like this in our Knesset?

Sir, I could not agree more w/ your positions, but this stance will never be taken by the weak, anti-Zionistic, leftists running the country-Olmert/Livni and Peretz have np pride in Istael and they certainly are more concerned w/this left-wing agenda than they are w/ protecting Sderot and all of Israel from the barbarian Philistines. Israel has been commiting a "slow" suicide since Oslo thanks to these people and their ilk.

To Martin: remember the old expression "all talk and no action". Well Israel meets that perfectly. Lots of talk, talky, talky, as the Broadway Play goes. Hitting a few buildings and empty fields in the Strip, just is a waste of time.in fact, makes Hamas bolder, as we are seeing now. Wha happens when GRAD rockets are fired further north and east and a few are fired from the W. Bank into Jerusalem, etc? Sooner or later Israel will have to decide what it wants to achieve? Right now, it's just playing with Hamas. Arresting a few legislators (to be released later) is also meaningless, unless they are tried for war crimes and hung. Now that will send a strong message. But don't hold your breath. Israel is still listening to Condi and the UN.

And where, pray tell, would you propose that all those Israelis who came from Arab countries go back to? You're a real genius, arent' you?

send the idf to iraq // and bring the usa soldiers to gaza // may be has an effect

until we can go back to Poland and Lithuania (after all both are in the EU now and the Eurabians have been just as nice to us as the Arabs )

Sharons plan (which is documented)was to eventually turn Gazza into a buffer zone and push the fake entitiy called palastine back into Jordan and Egypt where they all originally came from. What egypt and Jordan does with them afterwards is not our concern. THIS IS THE ONLY SOLUTION!!!!

It's time to believe in ourselves. The world can go to ........!

If the world doesn't react to the situation in Sderot it might be simply because since the first qassam was launched, six or seven years ago, twelve people were killed. Twelve! And twelve doesn't stand comparison with the 650 Palestinians killed last year only by the Idf, it hardly equals the number of people killed in road accidents in one week end.

of National Security Council, this seems like a pretty amateurish review! Things are surley not so simplistic and two dimensional as you'd have us believe. Plus there's no denying that the currant strategy of strategic operations instead of all out war is having an effect.

...that the world's opinion is already decided regarding Israel. No matter what action Israel takes, world public opinion will be biased against Israel. So the IDF might as well go in and do what ever they have to to ensure the safety of their fellow Israelis. The bottom line is this: We're Jews. No one cares about our suffering. Short of carpet-bombing the entire Gaza strip, nothing can make international opinion worse.

Israel can launch a massive military operation in Gaza, exterminate most terrorists and ignore the so-called world.

responsibility. Gaza only belongs to Arabs now. They didn't want to co-exist with Jews. Now let them take care of themselves and if they attack Israel, destroy them all. Arab Palestinians are using help and support from other Arabs in fighting Israel. Gaza is an enemy state. Giora should be listened to.

with a border with Egypt, they won't be ghetoized. If Egyptians don't like to have the Palestinian terrorists as a neighbor, its their problem. Arms are smuggled to Gaza from Egypt and Egyptians officials are aware of this and helping Palestianians with obtaining arms. Egypt can also help them take care of electricity, water, heathcare and other things. Or maybe finally Palestinians in Gaza will realized they will have to work and use their minds for providing their neccesities instead of being a welfare state and expect Israel and the world to take care of their every needs while they enjoy their lazy lives, help terrorists and use their minds for planning the destruction of the country they get their electricity from.