online.wsj.com - 1/6/2009
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Maybe this column would get a better reception if it were titled, "No Endgame for Israel." Because the quantity of commentary claiming that Israel cannot possibly achieve any kind of successful outcome in Gaza is already approaching presurge levels of Iraq defeatism. The argument that Israel's ...
lynch.foreignpolicy.com - 1/7/2009
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lynch.foreignpolicy.com —
I spent the morning at a lecture organized
by GWU's outstanding Homeland Security Policy Institute's Ambassador's Roundtable
Series featuring Israel's Ambassador to the United States Sallai Meridor. It was a profoundly dismaying experience. Because ...
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"We have no grand political scheme"
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 1/6/2009
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Noah Pollak asked me to provide some framework
for a discussion of proportionality and just war theory
with respect to the Israeli attack on Gaza. In re-reading my Catechism and brushing up on just war theory, I am struck first of all by how alien ...
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Proportionality And Terror
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Proportionality
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Bret Stephens proposes: For every single rocket that falls randomly on Israeli soil, an Israeli
missile will hit a carefully selected target in Gaza. Focusing the
minds of Hamas on this type of "proportionality" is just the endgame
that Israel needs. How is that an "endgame" exactly? Isn't it actually a formula for the war never ending? ...
Hamas Bears Responsibility for Deaths in Gaza
GayPatriot —
... Bret Stephens offers an interesting option for Israel should Hamas violate that cease-fire: “For every single rocket that falls randomly on Israeli soil, an Israeli missile will hit a carefully selected target in Gaza.” Sounds like a reasonable request to me. ...
Spare the Hamas spoil the war
Yourish.com —
... its weapons of mass destruction programs.
Here too, chances that this outcome will prevail are not great because the Israeli government has already stated that it is unwilling to reassert control over Gaza’s border with Egypt which is where most of Hamas’s weapons are imported from.
If the disarray is real, pressure for a ceasefire will give Haniyeh and company time to regroup. That’s unacceptable.
Long term, Bret Stephens writes in An Endgame for Israel:
A long-term policy aimed squarely at killing or capturing ...
Dissecting Leftism —
... is going to achieve a strategic victory in this war, it will have to stand firm against this global wave of hypocrisy and cant. Israel will also have to practice a more consistent policy of deterrence than it has so far done. One option: For every single rocket that falls randomly on Israeli soil, an Israeli missile will hit a carefully selected target in Gaza. Focusing the minds of Hamas on this type of "proportionality" is just the endgame that Israel needs. More here *************************** Stop This Vicious Slaughter! England Must Stop ...
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