Title: Dubious recommendations
Review: Van Creveld does point out the problems Israel faces: terror, conventional attacks, and possible long-term hostility and threats no matter what it does. And he has a solution: reduce the threat of terror by getting out of the land that was under Arab occupation in 1966.Unfortunately, the argument for doing this is unconvincing. And there are some strong arguments for doing something else. One is that ethnically cleansing the West Bank of its Jews is already a serious abrogation of human rights. Another is that it may well encourage Arab terror even more if the interim result of it is to gain general acceptance of Arab rights to steal Jewish land. I was not impressed by the author's grasp of such problems. Van Creveld may be correct that a fence separating the Jews and Arabs is a good idea. But there is no good reason to put even the heavily Jewish portions of the West Bank on the Arab side of the fence even when these areas are adjacent to the 1966 Israeli border.
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