"Events from recent days…raise fears that a unilateral withdrawal from Gaza is causing serious security damage to Israel," Rubenstein wrote. He added that Arabs see the planned withdrawal of the IDF from Gaza as proof that "Israel only understands the language of terror attacks and violence."
Rubenstein's comments come after weeks of warnings from several senior IDF officers that Arab terror will escalate after the planned expulsion of Jewish residents from their homes and turning over more than twenty-five Jewish communities to the Palestinian Authority (PA).''
Rubenstein noted that Hamas terrorists were supposed to be part of the "calm" in the past few months and be part of a new PA legislative assembly. Elections had been scheduled for this week, but PA chairman Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) recently postponed them for several months.

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