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The Lesson of Afghanistan for Israel: Self-Reliance
(Jerusalem Post) Lahav Harkov - The lesson of Afghanistan "is that Israel's doctrine of self-reliance has no replacement," said former Israel Foreign Ministry director-general Dore Gold, president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. "Israel understood all along that its defense doctrine cannot be based on foreign forces, but the ability of Israel to defend itself by itself....The idea that Israel could rely on foreign forces was firmly rejected by Israeli prime ministers from [Yitzhak] Rabin through [Benjamin] Netanyahu."