1. Since the danger exists that the morning after the uprooting, terror will again start running amok, the result of your refusal for reasons you view as lofty, will end (an army, after all, cannot tolerate refusal during wartime) with your desertion of the future battlefield.

2. Halamish added that sometimes luck plays more of a factor when facing the Qassam rockets than Israel’s military capabilities. «This is a close threat that has an impact on the home front as well as the national morale,» Halamish said at a conference in Tel Aviv University on the use of electro–optics on the future battlefield. «Our ability to deal with this threat is difficult until being almost impossible in certain places.» Halamish accused Iran and Syria of transferring know–how to the Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip and that the characteristics of warfare in Gaza today were similar to those used against the Israeli forces by the Hezbollah in Lebanon and against American troops in Iraq.