"...More firepower? More dead kids for the world to contemplate? Maybe napalm this time? How about mass expulsions? Creating new "facts on the ground?"Ground penetrating radar? The Israelis are not as technology obsessed as we Americans. I doubt if they really think that gadgets like this will prevent Hamas shooting into Israel. The Israelis have run out of ideas and are now grasping at straws. Some US military officer attached to the State Department probably dreamt this up for Condi Baby on her way out of town.
A truce? Did I see that magic word in the article? Could it be?If not, then an escalation? There really is not much to differentiate Natanyahu from Livni on major issues like Gaza. The next Israeli prime minister (whoever it is) will have to "fish or cut bait" on this problem.What'll it be, mass expulsions, extermination, or a truce? ..."
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Expulsions of individuals is not likely to accomplish anything because it is Israeli treatment of Palestinians that provokes their resentment. Mass expulsions--namely of all Palestinians from Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank--would undoubtedly satisfy some up-and-coming Israeli politicians. However, there's a problem: the Palestinians are walled in. That, after all, is Hamas' main complaint!
And then, where would they go? Help the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt? Tip the balance in Jordan? Cut a deal with Hezbollah? Perhaps they could all become foreign students and enroll in Salafi madrassas in Saudi Arabia.
Colonialism is so 19th century. Why don't they get it? One can still do it, I suppose. I mean, they are...for the moment. The Soviet Union did it for several decades, until it finally realized the Warsaw Pact was just too expensive. But colonialism just ain't what it used to be.
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