Weekly Commentary: Once again the timing could have been much worse for us
Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 10 February 2011

Once again the timing could have been much worse for us.

Just imagine how much more complicated and dangerous the situation would
have been if Egyptian security forces were deployed today in the Gaza Strip
while Jordanian troops bivouacked next door to Kfar Sava. Sure it sounds
ridiculous today, but that’s what Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman
advocated for years and he was hardly alone. All kinds of experts and
politicians were pushing such a move.

Why “once again”?

If not for the Second Lebanon War, the IDF today would be a skeleton force
stripped of vital forces and left with many units that hadn’t held a serious
exercise in years (so much so that the soldiers no longer even remembered
how to operate their equipment).

If not for Yasser Arafat’s refusal to behave himself from the very start of
Oslo we could just as easily be facing a crisis today with a sovereign
Palestinian terror state poised to exploit the opportunity to complete the
destruction of the Jewish State.

The same could be said for Syria, where two generations of Assads
fortunately refused to do a “Sadat” and get the Golan Heights in return for
a visit to Jerusalem and speech at the Knesset.

And the list goes on.

And so, for all the loss of sleep developments in Egypt are causing us
today, it can still definitely be said that the timing could have been much
worse for us.

Dr. Aaron Lerner, Director IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis)
(Mail POB 982 Kfar Sava)
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