Ability Hits the Mark Where Presumption Overshoots and Diffidence Falls Short

Discarded Lies examines Ariel Sharon's survival of Benjamin Netanyahu's latest attempt to return to the Prime Ministership of Israel, quoting this 2002 Time article:

Not that Netanyahu would necessarily do things that differently from Sharon if he were faced with the realities of power. An editorial in Maariv suggested he doesn't even believe that a Palestinian state can be stopped. And Netanyahu's own record in power, moreover, suggests he knows the score: Elected as a fierce opponent of the Oslo accords, he was nonetheless forced, as prime minister, to observe it — by withdrawing from Hebron, for example — while Sharon snapped at his heels from the right.

I think I'm with Zulubaby when she says:

If Likud don't stop fighting within, they're going to hand Israel over to the moronic left and then we're really screwed.

On the other hand, Eurabian Times has this "Perfidious Columbia" piece, which gives lie to the arabist whine about American / "Neo-con" support for the Jewish State, and a more optimistic piece entitled "See what can be done with a little political will?". However, Matt makes the following observations, and asks the obvious question:

The pattern is familiar: terrorists attack Israel, Israeli government authorises what the IDF has been ready to do since the last attack, but the offensive stops. The terrorists regroup, and are successful sooner or later. Wash, rinse and repeat.

But here's a crazy notion. I'd bet good money that the list of targets the Israelis have is even longer than the one above. A lot longer. So why not keeping [sic] destroying infrastructure, killing leader [sic] and taking down cells until you have no more actionable intelligence?