At 3:30 PM -0500 4/1/09, Charles Bennett wrote:
>On Jan 4, 2009, at 11:04 AM, Chris Gehlker wrote:
>
>> Even the NYT points out that it is disingenuous for Israel to say 'We
>> just want to stop the missiles: we have no intention of overthrowing
>> Hamas and occupying Gaza"
>
>
>OTOH, if they don't do exactly that we will be watching this movie
>again in a couple of years only each time Hamas will have bigger and
>better weapons
My friend Ian has an excellent post comparing the weapons in
use by Hamas and the IDF.
http://loic.livejournal.com/119196.html
The Hamas rockets are a step above throwing stones.
>In any case, why say that they are going to continue to target Hamas
>leadership and then say they are not trying to over throw Hamas?
>
>Better to say that they recognize Fatah as the only leadership and
>intend to destroy Hamas and if they have to re-occupy Gaza until they
>get it done
>that they will.
Of course, if they did install Fatah as the Palestinian
leadership, they'd probably go right back to undermining Fatah just
like they did before.
I think the only real leadership of Palestine that would
satisfy Israel would be utterly docile and subservient, and I don't
think either Hamas or Fatah will ever be sufficiently so for them.
Israel has continuously kept up aggression and pressure on
Palestine -- it is just that they like to keep up the heat, but not
let it boil over into an actual hot war. Hamas made it boil over --
but Hamas is not what has been keeping the pressure and heat on over
the last few decades.
Cheers
David
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