In conflicts, especially ones involving a terrorist or paramilitary organization, there is usually an imbalance of power.
The role of the terrorist organization is not to defeat an army or destroy a country in a full-scale war, it is to inflict pain, violence and bloodshed to the point that the stronger party sues for peace on generous terms, which usually weakens it.
In the over 100-year-old conflict against Jewish sovereignty in its ancestral and indigenous homeland by Arab violent rejectionism and terrorism, it was understood a half century ago that no regional army could defeat the Jewish State.
It is certainly no coincidence that the surge of Palestinian Arab terrorism, especially on the international stage, began after the Yom Kippur War, which ended with an Israel victory.
Since that time, Israel’s enemies understood that the rules of warfare had changed in the perception of many in the west, possibly as a result of the Vietnam War. READ MORE
