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Strategic Affairs Minister: Israel Must Have Defensible Borders in the Jordan Valley
(Jerusalem Post) Tovah Lazaroff - Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz told the Institute for National Security Studies on Wednesday that Israel could not ensure its security if it withdraws the IDF from the Jordan Valley, pointing to Israel's experience with the Gaza withdrawal in 2005. Since then, he said, more than 11,000 rockets had been fired at Israel. "We have to make sure that we have defensible borders - total control - in the Jordan Valley, and not only in certain points," adding that it was important to maintain the Israeli settlements in the valley. He also noted that the Middle East was unstable, Arab countries were collapsing from within, and no one could promise that a Palestinian state would be immune from takeover by radicals.