Gershon Shafir has a really perceptive post at the group-blog adjunct to Informed Comment asking what happens in Gaza as the Israeli bombing progresses past its third day. Consider:
First, Israel is about to exhaust obvious and legitimate military targets, especially those available for aerial bombardment, even under their
It took until after his corruption scandal-induced resignation, but interim Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert gave an interview in September to the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth urging Israel to negotiate a comprehensive peace with its neighbors or be consigned to endless war. The New York Review of Books translated More…
This is the Obama transition’s official statement on Gaza as of right now, courtesy of chief transition national-security spokeswoman Brooke Anderson:
“President-elect Obama is closely monitoring global events, including the situation in Gaza, but there is one president at a time.”
The Israeli bombardment of Gaza is in its third day, and now the Islamic University in Gaza — which The New York Times calls a “Hamas stronghold” and Israel says helps to manufacture some of the Qassam rockets that hit Israeli villages and triggered this massive response — More…
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