Operation Home and Garden was declared an operational success, but its effects will wear off quickly unless there is a change in the overall situation, especially regarding the balance of power in the northern West Bank. Therefore, what is needed is a complementary political move to realize the potential of cooperation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority and to create the conditions that will allow and encourage the PA to return to Jenin – primarily as an entity capable of reconstruction following the IDF operation. At the...
IDF Central Command is responsible for the ongoing campaign in a unique, complex reality in which it has both military control of territory and control over a population – an Israeli population alongside a Palestinian population with nationalist aspirations. The Command has successfully maintained control over the West Bank for the past 56 years, while aiming to preserve long-term stability through three wssential enabling principles: it is the sovereign with a systemic approach to the theater; it takes a force application approach...
