Defeatist IDF 'strategy' in the western Negev

In Israel's battered western Negev, which has borne the brunt of the foolish expulsion of Jews from Gaza two years ago, the government has forced the IDF into a defeatist strategy. It's as if the residents of Sderot and other towns that are proximate to Gaza have been told to climb into their beds, roll themselves up into little balls and then it will all be alright. Instead of ordering the IDF