Sunday, December 14, 2008

Success: cleaning up the West Bank


Israel's Strategy Against Palestinian Terrorism Pays Off -Ehud Yaari

Even though isolated bombings, shootings or stabbings may still occur, the West Bank has been thoroughly cleansed of active terrorist networks.

It has taken six years - since Operation Defensive Shield in 2002 - of systematic effort to reach this result, including nightly raids, usually by small detachments, into Palestinian towns and villages to arrest or kill terrorists, concentrated and focused co-ordination between all branches of the defense establishment and, above all, acquisition of accurate, real-time, pinpointed intelligence.

[T]he production line of suicide bombers, explosive belts and roadside bombs has been totally destroyed.
(The Australian)

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