Simple question- What exactly is Israel trying to achieve through the operation in Gaza? 45% of the casualties were women and children. 25% were children.
What is their hope? What? I do not understand. Let us bomb them, and then we will have killed the radical elements and we will all live in peace? Really? If you saw your children killed by Israeli rockets would you want to bomb Israel?
Interview here-Jeremy Paxman asks the Israeli Ambassador to the UK about the Israeli atrocities in Gaza
To answer my own question, here is a very interesting take on what Israel is trying to do- the education of the Hamas, like the the education of Hezbollah. Friedman says that, after the Hezbollah had declared victory over Isreal in 2006, the Lebanese civilians had come out of their houses and looked the the distroyed landscape and gotten angry with the Hizbollah for causing such havoc in their lives. That was the education of the Hizbollah, the cries of the civilians-" Was it worth it?" Read the complete article here.
Friday, January 16, 2009
Israel and Gaza
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No, the purpose was, as always, to create incentives. i.e., to make it very costly for Hamas to launch rockets at Israel in the future. Also, to make it more costly for the people of Gaza to support Hamas. Finally, to restore Israel's reputation as a fearsome opponent with other hostile nations.
January 27, 2009 at 8:43 AMOf course, they filed miserably in the first two objectives. Hamas was able to use the war as a way to cement its legitimacy, and eliminate Fatah entirely from Gaza.
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