ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the ways to stop the violence in isolation from other aspects of the uprising. The uprising is in fact a war against Israel by a large population, although, as the chief of staff points out, it is not a conventional war because of “limitations on the use of force” that do not apply in normal warfare. The PLO and the Palestinians wish to exploit the uprising to score political gains. Palestinian successes in the uprising that will make it significantly more difficult for Israel to live with the status quo, or alternatively, an Arab-initiated war that would leave Israel in an untenable military situation. Israeli success, without the use of radical military means, in suppressing or greatly scaling down the violent aspects of the uprising, or in repulsing an Arab attack while inflicting heavy casualties on the assailant and perhaps seizing enemy territory.
