As the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip nears the end of its second week, two things are clear: first, that it will come to some sort of internationally brokered end; and second, that it will end thus because there is no other end that Israel will countenance. This is not to say that there is no other end Israel wants, but it cannot have what it wants — Hamas will neither be destroyed nor neutered — and so the question of the end is a question of what it may have. For all the vitriol the Jewish state receives every time it attacks those who attack it — be it a Vatican hierarch invoking the Holocaust(!), or the United Nationsharrumphing about the sanctity of its property — the ground truth is that Israel lacks the bloody-mindedness to end things as it might, and as its enemies certainly would.Duly Noted: Disproportional Outrage
1. This week’s Duly Noted’s content has been shaped by the salient events of the Near East. There is a justification. The reaction to, and the handling of the conflict predicts the way we will cope with the tension accumulating between modern societies and Islamism.Playing to Win in Gaza
Sunday, 11 January 2009
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