Israeli Deputy PM Moshe "Bogie" Ya'alon: Preventing Terrorist Infrastructure in a Palestinian State

The recent decline in Palestinian violence is not a result of Palestinian reform from within. It is a result of ongoing IDF operations in Judea and Samaria and in Gaza whose goals are to uproot the terror infrastructures present.
Israel must take every precaution in order to ensure that the areas to be included in a Palestinian entity will not be corrupted and exploited by terrorist organizations.


Introduction: Restoring a Security-First Peace Policy
By Lt.-Gen. (ret.) Moshe Yaalon

-In his major policy speech at Bar-Ilan University in 2009, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
articulated a major shift in Israel's policy -- a restoration of Israel's traditional security-based
approach to achieving a lasting peace.
-When Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin entered into the Oslo Accords, he envisioned something
along the lines of the "Allon Plan" for Judea and Samaria (the West Bank). Drafted shortly
after the Six-Day War, the plan called for Israel to retain sovereignty in some of the territories
it came to control in Judea and Samaria, and delineated a security border extending from
the Jordan Valley up the steep eastern slopes of the Judea-Samaria mountain ridge and
retained sovereignty over Jerusalem as Israel's united capital.
-In the aftermath of Arafat's rejection of Prime Minister Ehud Barak's peace offer, the
Palestinian suicide bombing war that followed, Ariel Sharon's withdrawal from the Gaza
Strip, the Second Lebanon War, the failed Annapolis talks, and the recent war in Gaza, the
Netanyahu government is readopting the notion that safeguarding Israel's vital security
requirements is the only path to a viable and durable peace with our Palestinian neighbors.
-The Palestinians have adhered to their historical narrative of armed struggle that denies
Israel's right to exist as a Jewish nation-state, regardless of signed agreements or unilateral
Israeli withdrawals. The Palestinians have interpreted Israeli territorial withdrawals as
signs of weakness and retreat that have energized their struggle to force additional Israeli
territorial concessions
-Until now, the Palestinians have only been asked for a "top-down" peace process,
throughout which their leaders have held meetings, shaken hands, attended peace
conferences, and even signed agreements with Israeli leaders. But when a peace process
does not sprout from the grassroots of a society, it is both pointless and useless. Until threeyear-
old children in Ramallah stop being taught to idolize "martyrs" who blow themselves
up for jihad against Israelis and Jews, there will only be a "peace process" in the imaginations
of the self-deluded.

Please see the full article on Restoring a Security-First Peace Policy:
http://www.jcpa.org/text/security/yaalon.pdf

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[72Yonatan]

The best way to destroy terrorist infrastructure is to discard the idea of a "two-state solution" altogether.

It cannot work.