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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I'm not sure where you think "the whole spiral started," but most certainly it did not start last weekend.
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No shit. it started in at least 1967, maybe the 40s.
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I think it's a little odd that you would ask me that question, as if I suggested something to the contrary somewhere.
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Don't get your panties tight. I don't think you want dead Jews.
c.f. the gazillion people at the support Hamas rally a few days back 10 miles from my home.
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I'm not sure there's any immediate and realistic alternative to some kind of ground campaign in Gaza, but the point I was making above, which maybe you missed, is that it is no secret that Netanyahu has been building up Hamas to weaken the Palestinian Authority. Israel has been trying to create Palestinian bantustans, and this is where that led. The alternative would be to try to support a more moderate Palestinian government that can be a negotiating partner.
Predictably, someone will respond to this by saying, look at what Hamas did! You can't negotiate with these people. But the strategy should be to empower the people you can negotiate with, and to marginalize and weaken groups like Hamas.
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That sounds pretty to do! Given that Hamas has guns and rockets, how would you empower them effectively? Give them guns and maybe tanks?
And wasn't the PA behind the Munich Olympics massacre and other outrages?
There is no solution I can see.
