Every raid, assassination, arrest and roadblock stir[s] rage and hatred and broaden[s] the pool of conscripts for terrorist cells
September 24, 2007 7:57 pm Occupier's Dilemma, Israeli Peace movement, Checkpoints as Breeding Grounds of Terror, Israeli-Palestinian conflictDanny Rubinstein, How many were arrested last night? - Haaretz, September 24, 2007
Shortly before his death three years ago, the sociologist Gadi Yatziv wrote that in the IDF struggle against terrorism, victory is part of failure. It is impossible to win because every raid, assassination, arrest and roadblock stir[s] rage and hatred and broaden[s] the pool of conscripts for terrorist cells. But it is also impossible to fail because the spokesmen of the Israeli security establishment will always claim that without these raids and roadblocks, terrorism will be much worse. It is an argument that cannot be refuted.