Prof. Paul Eidelberg
On 5 December 2003, in apparent response to the twin homicide bombing that
occurred in Tel Aviv, Israel Air-Force combat helicopters attacked a weapons-producing
workshop in the neighborhood of Eskola in Gaza City. A wide variety of weapons
were produced in the workshop, especially mortar bombs. The workshop was used
mostly by terrorists.
I ask: Why these half-hearted, diminutive measures? How many weapons have the
terrorists been able to accumulate because of the Government’s grotesque
policy of self-restraint? How many Jews have been murdered because of Sharon’s
deliberate refusal to pursue a policy of zero-tolerance for Arab terrorism?
Why didn’t the Sharon Government give the IDF orders – long ago
-- to sweep through Gaza as well as Judea and Samaria to disarm and destroy
the entire PLO-Palestinian Arab leadership and terrorist network?
Yamin Israel, working with the Herut party, has answers to this question.