For almost forty years we were told that the Israeli-Syrian border is lined with impassible minefields. Today, about a thousand Arabs crossed these minefields into Israel to engage in a firefight with IDF. The army reacted in the worst possible manner, with low-level violence. We could have allowed the Arabs into Israel for a day, cordoned off the area, and quietly deported them the following day. Or we could have shot a lot of them and thus done a great favor for Assad, allowing him to rally the nation around his government in yet another spate of anti-Israeli rhetoric.
Seven years ago, we wrote that in the next war Egypt and Syria will march hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of their citizens into Israel, and there is nothing that the politically correct Israeli army can do about that. That scenario is all the more probable in Gaza.
