gen. shamni: most israelis over like to see the idf it. but i think it is impossible to do it into achieve peace agreement with the palestinians. by the way, we had the same dilemma in the past with the corridor, the border between gaza and egypt, a very short corridor. very short, but still, a lot of problems. i commanded the division of gaza in the height of the conflict with the palestinians and with hamas in 2003, 2004. hamas was producing rockets, ied's, everything. after the that disengagement from gaza and while egyptians did not pay enough attention to the border, bring a munition and knowledge -- bring ammunition and knowledge and bring people to train others. it is true, but still. if i looked at the situation in 2004, and in was in gaza, it could have been much worse had we stayed in the corridor, much worse than it is today. why if someone does not understand military issues or strategy, you know, it caused a big dilemma. by the way, he already decided to hold elections in jerusalem,

gen. shamni: the security system is a multilayered system. it's very far from the israeli border. for example the border to the east. it is on the border of jordan with iraq. imagine peace with more countries in the region. step which isone a controversial issue. if you ask most israelis, they idf will you that state in jordan. claim know many will occupation has never ended. if we invent a system of , we would be able to support an effective counter of terrorism internally by giving a strong palestinian force that cannot post any threat to the state of israel but can be very effective internally supported by the u.s., supported by others, supported by israel, supported by a system of intelligence and sharing information. will enable that palestinians to present tourism in the region. we leave the jordan valley and i thek, as i said before, palestinians have proved when they want to fight, they can do it. we pass responsibility to palestiniansd [inaudible] the cooperation between us and the palestinians to transfer even the most sensitive intelligence for us to take action, i take