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Same here. I also question his highlighting of Israeli development efforts after the 1967 War. From what I read those development efforts were targeted toward settlements and improvements for the...

Wilf,

The settlements I refer to are the settlements initiated by Sharon and other hardliners.

Let's agree to disagree and move on.

Tom

Yep

The Israelis considering the source of your post

The US government position is that the West Bank is occupied territory. That is why US policy was and still is againstthe settlement...

Quite simply that the UK and or the US has had the option of disengagement as a course of action. In the case of Israel that option is not there. For years there was the territory for peace option...

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Sorry Wilf,

The IDF does not do COIN. They do intimidation based operations. These may be counter-guerrilla counter-terror focused but they are not COIN. They do not seek to gain anyone's...

True Steve. MILES has its own gamesmanship built into it, a fact we have contended with here for years and still deal with. On the other hand, MILES does reinforce the critical skill of marksmanship...

The problem with paintball is that the technology itself creates tactical tendencies that are suited purely for a paintball world.

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Tom

Once again, the anti-semetic argument emerges.

Interesting and completely expected.

you can read the pro and con reader responses to the Harvard paper at:
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The extract above is from an article by, Ilan Pappe, a senior lecturer at the University of Haifa was in this months London Book Review. You can see it at: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n08/papp01_.html...

Israel's biggest problem is the population issue. Time is not on their side when it comes down to looking at numbers of people and available land.

The strategic reality is that Israel is an...

Merv,

The bigots live on both sides of the equation. Every argument you make applies to the Israelis as well as the Palestinians. The Israelis have ALWAYS worked to isolate and undermine the...

Is Israel's "strategy" working?

First of all there are NO short answers to this and related questions. That said, the answer is NO. If you have any doubts look at the population figures, the...