Posted by
Boris Tiraspolsky on Thursday, June 12, 2008 3:27:43 AM
"I understood that we are not going to win this war by knockout - but by points. I understood that we wouldn't be able to use our power and we should find a way to deal with the terrorists surgically and to enable the Palestinians who are not involved in the terror attacks to live their life... it's very easy to say it's quite difficult to implement."
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Currently, Moshe Ya'alon is is a senior fellow at
the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies at the Shalem Center
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Islamists can be defeated
War against Jihadists requires uncompressing effort by entire western world
by Moshe Ya'alon
The Islamist Jihad wave did not begin in September 2001 with the attack on the US. The Iranian revolution in 1979 marks the historic turning point where fanatical Islam began to gain strength and confidence. Iran's role as a Muslim state served as a source of inspiration for the emergence of al-Qaeda, the strengthening of the Muslim Brotherhood movement and the rise of Hamas – these are varying movements and often even rival ones, but they share the common goal of Islamization.
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