Q&A: Precisely today they’re launching an operation in Jenin—not a few days ago, not a few days from now. Specifically now. Why?
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Precisely today they’re launching an operation in Jenin—not a few days ago, not a few days from now. Specifically now. Why?
Question
Some are claiming that the timing of doing the operation in Jenin specifically today is because Bibi wanted to disrupt the protests against him at Ben-Gurion Airport and elsewhere.
Is that possible?
Answer
I have no idea
Discussion on Answer
The question wasn’t whether the operation is proper or justified, but whether its timing just happened to be set for today.
“A prime minister who is immersed up to his neck in investigations has no moral or public mandate to determine matters so fateful for the State of Israel.
There is a concern—I must say a real one, and not an unfounded one—that he will make decisions based on his personal interest in political survival and not on the basis of the national interest.”
B.N., 2008
The IDF can’t ignore the rocket that was fired from there over the weekend. That’s already an escalation. So yes, the IDF is brave against the weak, and opposite Hezbollah’s outpost on Mount Dov it behaves with excessive gentleness, but still, it’s better that at least against these weak ones it be strong.