Posted on 07/17/2014 9:28:41 AM PDT by Star Traveler
Op-ed: A land invasion is our last resort, but we might have to do it nonetheless; Hamas might compel us to.
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If we emerge from this round of conflict with an extended period of quiet, I will consider that to constitute success. Operation Cast Lead (winter 2008-9) gave us almost four years of quiet. Operation Pillar of Defense (November 2012) gave us 20 months. Longer, needless to say, would be better.
In pursuit of that goal we are hitting Hamas hard. We are damaging Hamas’s military machine. We are diminishing its capacity to cause us harm. And Hamas is losing support among the local population for the harm it is causing to Gaza.
There are no perfect solutions, no magic fixes. There are limits to what can be achieved by force.
I am only too aware of some of the limitations of our response. Hamas now has a sophisticated rocket-production capability inside Gaza; we are doing our best to target its workshops. We are targeting its key terror chiefs, knowing full well that they are trying to keep themselves out of reach, in the subterranean network of reinforced tunnels and bunkers they have fashioned for themselves.
But under President el-Sissi, Egypt today has a very different stance on Hamas than did the previous regime of Mohammed Morsi. We see that Egypt has acted unprecedentedly to seal the tunnels under the Egypt-Gaza border; we hope that, in partnership with our security forces, Egypt’s role will limit Hamas’s capacity to rearm.
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Israel doesn’t have one set of morals “inside Israel proper” and a different set “outside” ... :-) ...
Another way to put it is ... Israel does not commit war crimes.
See post #3 ...
You keep assigning to me things I did not say in order to make argument. Your views are conservative but your argument is in the left mode.
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