Gaza: An Eye for an Eye Leaves Everyone Blind
I am no expert on Israel issues, but I do know enough about common sense to know that you can’t defeat an entrenched popular movement like Hamas by bombing the shit out of that movement’s base. That’s doubly true when, like Hamas, the movement has gained electoral legitimacy through free and open elections, like the ones George Bush insisted on in 2005.
What will doubtless emerge from this latest orgy of blood and violence is that the Israeli army will have to completely and utterly destroy Hamas if they are to claim victory, while all Hamas has to do is to stand up to Israel, much like Hezbollah did in Lebanon. israel believes that if they punish [read: "mangle and kill"] people and families in Gaza enough, the people will turn on Hamas, blaming them for the war. Israel doesn’t seem to understand that occupied people rarely if ever side with the occupier. It’s really not that difficult a concept to grasp.
In the end, Hamas will only become MORE entrenched, more popular with the Gazans, and more powerful. It’s a sad state of affairs for everyone. The fact is, eventually both sides have to sit down and talk at a table that will inevitably sit atop a mountain of stinking, pustulent corpses. Only israel and Hamas can decide how tall their tower of offal will be.
Via Phawker, images from Gaza. Not for the weak-of-stomach.
I really hate wars.
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