{"id":12152,"date":"2020-01-23T12:17:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T20:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12152"},"modified":"2020-01-23T12:18:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T20:18:00","slug":"the-israel-u-s-model-has-been-a-resounding-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-israel-u-s-model-has-been-a-resounding-success\/","title":{"rendered":"The Israel\u2013U.S. Model Has Been a Resounding Success"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether by accident or by deliberate osmosis, Israel and the U.S. have adopted similar solutions to their existential problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before 2002, during the various Palestinian intifadas, Israel suffered hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries from suicide bombers freely crossing from the West Bank and Gaza into Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response, Israel planned a vast border barrier. The international community was outraged. The Israeli left called the idea nothing short of \u201capartheid.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, after the completion of the 440-mile border barrier \u2014 part concrete well, part wire fencing \u2014 suicide bombings and terrorist incursions into Israel declined to almost nil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The wall was not entirely responsible for enhanced Israeli security. But it freed up border manpower to patrol more vigorously. The barrier also was integrated with electronic surveillance and tougher laws against illegal immigration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The wall also brought strategic and political clarity. Those who damned Israel but freely crossed its borders sounded incoherent when they became furious that the barrier prevented access to the hated Zionist entity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/01\/us-iran-tensions-soleimani-strike-alarmists-were-wrong\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Whether by accident or by deliberate osmosis, Israel and the U.S. have adopted similar solutions to their existential problems. Before 2002, during the various Palestinian intifadas, Israel suffered hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries from suicide bombers freely crossing from the West Bank and Gaza into Israel. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3a0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5041,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/fortress-israel\/","url_meta":{"origin":12152,"position":0},"title":"Fortress Israel?","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 25, 2002","format":false,"excerpt":"Something there than doesn't love a wall. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online President Bush's speech outlined well enough the general parameters of peace \u2014 Israeli security, a new democratic government in Palestine without Mr. Arafat, return of most of the West Bank\u00a0et al. Whether such promised autonomy will\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;June 2002&quot;","block_context":{"text":"June 2002","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/archives\/2002\/june-2002\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3945,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-israel-enigma\/","url_meta":{"origin":12152,"position":1},"title":"The Israel Enigma","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 10, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services What explains most of the world's dislike of\u00a0Israel\u00a0? Since Israeli settlers withdrew from\u00a0Gaza\u00a0in 2005, Palestinian terrorists have replied by consistently shooting homemade Qassam rockets at civilian targets inside\u00a0Israel\u00a0. Just recently, they've kidnapped a soldier and a hitchhiker (who has been killed) \u2014 and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;July 2006&quot;","block_context":{"text":"July 2006","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/archives\/2006\/july-2006\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10720,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/dont-forget-middle-east-madness\/","url_meta":{"origin":12152,"position":2},"title":"Don\u2019t Forget Middle East Madness","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 7, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ National Review \u00a0 Thanks to the Iran deal, the mullahs can buy nearly all the weapons they need. \u00a0 There is currently a real Asian pivot as the president completes one of the longest presidential tours of Asia in memory. Three carrier battle groups are in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Kurds&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Kurds","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/kurds\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4287,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/right-strategy-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":12152,"position":3},"title":"Right Strategy Again","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 29, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Gaza pullout will turn terror morass to conventional standoff. by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services \"Brilliant tactician, lousy strategist.\" So goes the conventional wisdom about the old bulldozer Ariel Sharon. But that assessment is exactly backward. Sharon's strategic insight has always proved more impressive than his messy tactical operations.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;August 2005&quot;","block_context":{"text":"August 2005","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/archives\/2005\/august-2005\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4756,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/when-should-we-stop-supporting-israel\/","url_meta":{"origin":12152,"position":4},"title":"When Should We Stop Supporting Israel?","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 28, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers The recent assassination of Sheik Saruman raises among some Americans the question\u2014at what point should we reconsider our rather blanket support for the Israelis and show a more even-handed attitude toward the Palestinians? The answer, it seems to me, should be assessed in cultural,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;March 2004&quot;","block_context":{"text":"March 2004","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/archives\/2004\/march-2004\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3052,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/corrupt-language-breeds-bad-history-and-bad-policy\/","url_meta":{"origin":12152,"position":5},"title":"Corrupt Language Breeds Bad History and Bad Policy","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 24, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"by Bruce S. Thornton Advancing a Free Society As the history of communism and fascism both illustrate, modern political tyranny has relied on fabricated history to legitimize its claims and actions, and such history in turn relies on the debasement of language. 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