TV host: How will this retreat be different?

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By Jerusalem Newswire Editorial Staff
August 17, 2005

The government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has made a concerted effort in recent days to make sure the Palestinian Arabs and international community understand anti-Jewish terrorism will not be tolerated after the Gaza pullout, and that future violence will be met by the full force of the IDF.

But the host of Israel Channel One's "Politics" program isn't so sure, reported IMRA's Aaron Lerner.

On Tuesday evening's program, Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofaz said he was certain Israel's security situation would improve and Palestinian Arab terror significantly decrease after the completion of the ?disengagement? process.

The program host responded by pointing out just hours earlier IDF intelligence chief Maj.-Gen. Aharon Ze'evi-Farkash told his Knesset overseers Israel could expect a fresh wave of intense Arab efforts to slaughter the nation's Jews from Judea and Samaria next spring as a direct result of the withdrawal.

Mofaz retorted that the moment the first post-disengagement rocket fell, Israel would unleash its full military might against the Palestinian Arab terrorists.

The host noted that during his many years in the news business he has heard Israel make that same threat after every major concession connected to the Israeli-Arab ?peace? process.

?The first time there was an attack we went into 'open broadcast' mode,? expecting some massive Israeli response, Lerner quoted the host as saying. But now, ?many thousands of mortar and rocket attacks later,? no one takes such threats seriously any more, least of all the Palestinian Arab forces.

?This time it will be different,? Mofaz insisted.

Will it?

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