The limit of espionage

In this article Ronen Bergman (http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3869009,00.html) praises Israel;s secret services for their tactical accomplishments and then, strangely ends with:
The bottom line: Excellent intelligence and operational capabilities can only go so far. At the end of the day, there is no substitute for dialogue and for a diplomatic process that always ends with some kind of compromise.
Israel has tried compromise for over 60 years. With whom? The Iranians who boast being able to withstand a counterattack after wiping Israel out?  Hamas, who gets wiped out repeatedly and continues to oppress its own population and seeks to increase civilian casualties among their own civilians?  The PLO which would not even accept Jerusalem?
Who do we compromise with? Our Creator on the choice of burial place?
When discrete, direct and targetted warfare cannot do the job. Only large scale warfare remains.  Israel, like America, is a paper tiger because everyone knows they will not transgress on Political Correctness. 

Kill as few as possible, suffer more casualties than required to achieve this purpose if necessary.

This seems to be the 11th Commandment.  We seem to forget that war has to be felt, as it was by the Jews in WWII, the Germans, and the Japanese to be able to convert all of these peoples to a new approach to life.  Jews became capable of creating a state, Germans learned to be peaceful (I hope it stays that way) and so did Japanes (I hope it changes soon to give china a local adversary).

It is time to learn that lesson, before we are taught it again by Iran.  "If one comes to destroy you, pre-empt him and kill him first." or in the words of Hill Street Blues: "Do it to them, before they do it to you.