On Proportionality -Michael Walzer
How many civilian casualties are "not disproportionate to" the value of avoiding the rocketing of Tel Aviv?
How many civilian casualties are "not disproportionate to" the value of avoiding the rocketing of Tel Aviv?
(New Republic)
Israel Focused on War Aims in Gaza -Alistair Lyon
Israel's war aims, such as restoring Israel's military deterrence and badly damaging Hamas' armed capacity, have already been achieved. Others, such as stopping Hamas rocket fire into Israel and preventing the Islamist movement from rearming, are still incomplete.
"Our information...is that Hamas has over-played its hand," said former Mossad chief Danny Yatom. "What's even more amazing is that the Arab states basically want Hamas to be hit..."
(Reuters)
"Iranian Unit" of Hamas Has Been Destroyed -Amos Harel & Avi Issacharoff
Palestinian sources reported that the "Iranian Unit" of Hamas, trained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, had been destroyed in fighting in the Zeytun neighborhood of Gaza City. The IDF took control of one of the large residential neighborhoods of Gaza City, Tel al-Hawa, that borders the center of the city.
(Ha'aretz)
The Dahiya Doctrine: Applying Disproportionate Force
-Amos Harel & Avi Issacharoff
Al-Jazeera faithfully broadcasts all the announcements issued by various unknown Palestinian factions about their alleged successes in the Gaza fighting.
The running captions at the bottom of the screen report non-stop on wholly fictitious events. The Popular Resistance Committees announce they have destroyed a Merkava tank; there are numerous false reports about IDF soldiers being killed. Hamas propaganda films immortalizing a strike on Israeli soldiers are broadcast over and over again. The viewer can't help but conclude that, at any moment, Hamas' forces are about to reach Gaza's northernmost point and that the IDF is fighting a desperate battle to push them back.
When Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh eventually emerges from his bunker, he will proclaim his organization the victor - and plenty of people will believe it.
Haniyeh will have a harder time convincing Gazans.
(Ha'aretz)
Hamas in Tactical Rethink -Abraham Rabinovich
Hamas hoped to humble the IDF by employing unconventional, quasi-guerilla tactics in densely built-up areas a conventional army would have difficulty dealing with. In ten days of ground combat, however, Hamas offered only sporadic resistance, melting away before the Israeli advance while suffering heavy casualties and inflicting few.
(The Australian)
Hard Lesson for Hamas –Editorial
Hamas is defeated, or is in the process of being defeated.
It is time that Hamas, and the battered people they represent, understand not just the inevitability of defeat, but they must absorb the truth that harassment and provocation are not the way forward.
(Globe and Mail-Canada)
Ending the West's Proxy War Against Israel -Gunnar Heinsohn
Violence and bloodshed are commonly seen in lands such as Gaza where at least 30% of the male population is in the 15-to-29 age bracket. In such "youth bulge" countries, young men tend to eliminate each other or get killed in aggressive wars until a balance is reached between their ambitions and the number of acceptable positions available in their society.
The reason for Gaza's endless youth bulge is that a large majority of its population does not have to provide for its offspring. Most babies are fed, clothed, vaccinated and educated by UNRWA, which is benevolently funded by the U.S. (31%) and the EU (nearly 50%). Unrestrained by such necessities as having to earn a living, the young have plenty of time on their hands for digging smuggling tunnels and firing missiles at Israel.
If we seriously want to avoid another generation of war in Gaza, we must have the courage to tell the Gazans that they will have to start looking after their children themselves, without UNRWA's help. This would force Palestinians to focus on building an economy instead of freeing them up to wage war.
The writer heads the Raphael Lemkin Institute, Europe's first institute devoted to comparative genocide research.
(Wall Street Journal Europe)
Britain's Muslims Should Condemn Hamas, Not Israel -Shiraz Maher
I am a Muslim, something which, in the eyes of many Muslims, means I should automatically defend the "Palestinian struggle." This is absurd.
(Telegraph-UK)
Israel Focused on War Aims in Gaza -Alistair Lyon
Israel's war aims, such as restoring Israel's military deterrence and badly damaging Hamas' armed capacity, have already been achieved. Others, such as stopping Hamas rocket fire into Israel and preventing the Islamist movement from rearming, are still incomplete.
"Our information...is that Hamas has over-played its hand," said former Mossad chief Danny Yatom. "What's even more amazing is that the Arab states basically want Hamas to be hit..."
(Reuters)
"Iranian Unit" of Hamas Has Been Destroyed -Amos Harel & Avi Issacharoff
Palestinian sources reported that the "Iranian Unit" of Hamas, trained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, had been destroyed in fighting in the Zeytun neighborhood of Gaza City. The IDF took control of one of the large residential neighborhoods of Gaza City, Tel al-Hawa, that borders the center of the city.
(Ha'aretz)
The Dahiya Doctrine: Applying Disproportionate Force
-Amos Harel & Avi Issacharoff
Al-Jazeera faithfully broadcasts all the announcements issued by various unknown Palestinian factions about their alleged successes in the Gaza fighting.
The running captions at the bottom of the screen report non-stop on wholly fictitious events. The Popular Resistance Committees announce they have destroyed a Merkava tank; there are numerous false reports about IDF soldiers being killed. Hamas propaganda films immortalizing a strike on Israeli soldiers are broadcast over and over again. The viewer can't help but conclude that, at any moment, Hamas' forces are about to reach Gaza's northernmost point and that the IDF is fighting a desperate battle to push them back.
When Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh eventually emerges from his bunker, he will proclaim his organization the victor - and plenty of people will believe it.
Haniyeh will have a harder time convincing Gazans.
(Ha'aretz)
Hamas in Tactical Rethink -Abraham Rabinovich
Hamas hoped to humble the IDF by employing unconventional, quasi-guerilla tactics in densely built-up areas a conventional army would have difficulty dealing with. In ten days of ground combat, however, Hamas offered only sporadic resistance, melting away before the Israeli advance while suffering heavy casualties and inflicting few.
(The Australian)
Hard Lesson for Hamas –Editorial
Hamas is defeated, or is in the process of being defeated.
It is time that Hamas, and the battered people they represent, understand not just the inevitability of defeat, but they must absorb the truth that harassment and provocation are not the way forward.
(Globe and Mail-Canada)
Ending the West's Proxy War Against Israel -Gunnar Heinsohn
Violence and bloodshed are commonly seen in lands such as Gaza where at least 30% of the male population is in the 15-to-29 age bracket. In such "youth bulge" countries, young men tend to eliminate each other or get killed in aggressive wars until a balance is reached between their ambitions and the number of acceptable positions available in their society.
The reason for Gaza's endless youth bulge is that a large majority of its population does not have to provide for its offspring. Most babies are fed, clothed, vaccinated and educated by UNRWA, which is benevolently funded by the U.S. (31%) and the EU (nearly 50%). Unrestrained by such necessities as having to earn a living, the young have plenty of time on their hands for digging smuggling tunnels and firing missiles at Israel.
If we seriously want to avoid another generation of war in Gaza, we must have the courage to tell the Gazans that they will have to start looking after their children themselves, without UNRWA's help. This would force Palestinians to focus on building an economy instead of freeing them up to wage war.
The writer heads the Raphael Lemkin Institute, Europe's first institute devoted to comparative genocide research.
(Wall Street Journal Europe)
Britain's Muslims Should Condemn Hamas, Not Israel -Shiraz Maher
I am a Muslim, something which, in the eyes of many Muslims, means I should automatically defend the "Palestinian struggle." This is absurd.
(Telegraph-UK)
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