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Of War, and Tent Hospitals
Via Andrew Sullivan , I came across this snippet from Jeffrey Goldberg : I saw Sally Quinn, an adjunct member of my Torah study group, last night, and she had a smart idea: Why not erect a massive tent hospital in Sderot, staff it with Israeli army doctors, and treat the Palestinian wounded ...
Op-Ed Contributor: Why Israel Can’t Make Peace With Hamas
Op-Ed Contributor: Why Israel Can’t Make Peace With Hamas
nytimes.com — The only small chance for peace in Gaza today is to help Hamas’s enemy, Fatah, prepare the West Bank for real freedom. > (more) Op-Ed Contributor: Why Israel Can’t Make Peace With Hamas
Israel’s bombardment of Gaza is not self-defence – it’s a war crime
timesonline.co.uk — ISRAEL has sought to justify its military attacks on Gaza by stating that it amounts to an act of self-defence as recognised by Article 51, United Nations Charter. We categorically reject this contention. The rocket attacks on Israel by Hamas ... (more) Israel’s bombardment of Gaza is not self-defence ...
Sources: Hamas leaders hiding in basement of Israel-built hospital in Gaza - ...
haaretz.com — Senior Hamas officials in Gaza are hiding out in a "bunker" built by Israel, intelligence officials suspect: Many are believed to be in the basements of the Shifa Hospital complex in Gaza City, which was refurbished during Israel's occupation of the ... (more) Sources: Hamas leaders hiding in basement  ...
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Gaza's End-Game
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Greg Dejerejian is skeptical: For what concretely realizable ends this ghastly suffering? To re-establish a 'new reality' in Israel's South? Bunk, I'm afraid, as Hamas is all but sure to preserve at least some rocket-fire capacity, unless the IDF is ready to go into each and every back alley and basement of Gaza for another 60-90 days, in hand to hand fighting that would turn Gaza into a Grozny-on-the-Mediterranean, if it hasn't been already, or even worse. To show a re-invigorated deterrent to the 'neighborhood', notably Iran, after the Lebanon sortie that ...

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