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The Key Question
January 19, 2009 | Posted by Abu Muqawama - 9:25am | 60 Comments
This is the single most important question with respect to the Gaza Campaign:
P.S. One or two readers get all precious when I use the label "Palestine." Unless those readers want me to start typing out the official UN designation for the territories in question -- "The Occupied Palestinian Territories" -- they need to relax and let me use "Palestine" as a shorthand.
Have three weeks of overpowering war by Israel here weakened Hamas as Israel had hoped, or simply caused acute human suffering?Remember, though, that yesterday we wrote of how states consistently overestimate the degree to which the population can or has any interest in disciplining armed actors in their midst:
There are ... limited indications that the people of Gaza felt such pain from this war that they will seek to rein in Hamas.As I read this article, it occurs to me that Israel is trying to figure out what they themselves did in a kind of ex post bellum way. Not sure if that is at all healthy.
P.S. One or two readers get all precious when I use the label "Palestine." Unless those readers want me to start typing out the official UN designation for the territories in question -- "The Occupied Palestinian Territories" -- they need to relax and let me use "Palestine" as a shorthand.
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