Sometimes you have to subordinate strategic considerations to tactical needs.

War is no picnic. Wars should be prevented, and if you can't prevent them, you have to put them off.

When you launch a surgical operation, you must already be well deployed to follow it through with larger forces. That complicates matters: you need to be ready for a full-fledged campaign on the operational level and have the diplomatic backing lined up as well.

To think that you can - as a Zionist, Jewish independent state at the end of the 20th century - rule over another people for generations without having any consequences - it's ridiculous.

Eric's assumption of Avanir's strategic and tactical reins augurs well for its future.

Since the Six-Day War, the whole world, which is the real arena of battle between us and the Palestinians, believes that Israel is right in regard to procedure, namely problems and disputes should be solved around the negotiating table.