Excerpt from "The Fate of Israel"
http://www.d-n-i.net/fcs/fabius_fate_of_israel.htm


The Palestinians show us the raw power of a primal strategy, a belief in a shared dream. They dream about the extermination of Israel. That is the official goal of Fatah, the former ruling party. Which is in turn losing strength to Hamas and Hezbollah, who seem even more dedicated to eliminating Israel. Their primal strategy forges the Palestinian people into a powerful weapon, against which Israel has few defenses. ...

Why is this so difficult to see? This quote from Col Hammes explains this blindness of western experts to Middle Eastern 4GW, one that applies equally well to the Palestinians and the Iraqi insurgents.

"Today’s insurgents do not plan for the Phase III conventional campaigns that were an integral part of Mao’s three-phased insurgency. They know they cannot militarily defeat the outside power. Instead, they seek to destroy the outside power’s political will so that it gives up and withdraws forces. They seek to do so by causing political, economic, social, and military damage to the target nation.

"After being driven out of Fallujah in November 2004, Abu Musad al-Zarqawi (sic) wrote, “The war is very long, and always think of this as the beginning. And always make the enemy think that yesterday was better than today.” "

“Dealing With Uncertainty”, Marine Corps Gazette, November 2005
http://www.smallwarsjournal.com/documents/hammes1.pdf