Minister Uzi Landau of the Likud, writing in Yediot Acharonot today, made it clear that the soldiers killed in the past two days had nothing to do with protecting Gush Katif. "Their deaths were rather connected with protecting the residents of Israel within the Green Line," Landau explained. The reason the terrorists are able to produce Kassam rockets that endanger Sderot and the southern Kibbutzim, he wrote, is "because we [are not there and] have not been there for a while."
Regarding yesterday's attack, Minister Landau wrote that it occurred in an area "that even according to Sharon's disengagement plan would have remained under Israeli control." There, too, IDF forces are forced to operate to protect mainland Israel from the smuggling of modern weapons. "What's clear," Landau writes, "is that each place we 'disengage' from and where terrorists remain, will end up like Zeitoun: We will have to re-enter again, not because we want to, but because that is the reality forcing itself upon us."
Regarding yesterday's attack, Minister Landau wrote that it occurred in an area "that even according to Sharon's disengagement plan would have remained under Israeli control." There, too, IDF forces are forced to operate to protect mainland Israel from the smuggling of modern weapons. "What's clear," Landau writes, "is that each place we 'disengage' from and where terrorists remain, will end up like Zeitoun: We will have to re-enter again, not because we want to, but because that is the reality forcing itself upon us."