theamericanscene.com - 1/7/2009
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This war has reminded others of the 2006 Lebanon War. It reminds me more of Operation Grapes of Wrath , the 1996 Israeli offensive in Lebanon launched by Prime Minister Shimon Peres. Both wars were launched without much consideration for “what happens then” because both were ...
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"
jta.org - 1/6/2009
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jta.org —
Top Democrats are planning to introduce a nonbinding
congressional resolution supporting Israel's goal in its Gaza Strip...
operation.
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Dems plan pro-Israel resolution
online.wsj.com - 1/6/2009
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online.wsj.com —
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 ...
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Opinion: An Endgame for Israel
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War: What Is It Good For?
Ross Douthat —
... as well.) Certainly, almost everything I've read suggests that this post, from Noah Millman, gets the likely consequences more or less correct: ...
What Happens Then?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Noah Millman's thoughts on the Gaza end-game are well worth your time:
That’s what the war is about, strategically: providing
Israel’s government with domestic and international cover for the next
phase of unilateral retreat from its post-1967 positions to more
defensible ones.
Not terribly inspiring, nor terribly complicated, is it? ...
The Left's Misguided Call for Cease Fire
Weekly Standard Blog —
... Not only that, but Hamas militancy has the effect of radicalizing the Israeli electorate, and pushing it into the arms of Netanyahu's Likud. There is a precedent for this, as Noah Millman explained earlier this week: ...
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