Reply #99: Military vs police

[Gimel]

by "policing' I tend to think of more ordinary crimes like theft, speeding, perhaps child abuse or violence between neighbors, etc. I think the settlements provide their own inner-community discipline to deal with such problems, through family courts or a system of community committees. For law-breaking between the settlements and the Arab communities, some other way of handling the issues, and I think they were left up to the settlements to provide their own security, from what I've read.

However, going back more than 15 years, there have been Arab attacks on the Jews traveling on roads to their settlements. There have been sniper attacks and bombs thrown at cars, as well as homes invaded and Jewish residents murdered.

This did not bring a general army operation into the areas. The Intifada attacking Israeli citizens did.