IDF Analysis: Withdrawal from Gaza a Mistake

The HaAretz web site has a surprisingly blunt analysis from Amir Oren. Oren says that the IDF has given up any hope of winning the conflict with the 'Palestinians' and has resigned itself to perpetual conflict for the foreseeable future. In the US - Soviet terms of the 70's, we might call this 'containment.' As a result of the Gaza withdrawal surrender, the IDF believes that it no longer has a