Quit it!
I’m about a week late in saying this, but better late than never: Israel’s indiscriminate bombing of Gaza is immoral at best, and a war crime at worst.1
The thing I find depressing about Israel’s assault on Gaza is that it has no apparent exit strategy. If Israel gets its way and wipes out the entire Hamas leadership, what will happen? Another crop of angry youth will rise up to replace them; Israel will respond to their posturing violently; and the cycle will begin again.
It’s sad to say, but about the only good thing that I can realistically expect to come out of this is an improvement in the level of agitprop software being published. Playing Raid Gaza! gives me the same feeling of discomfort as reading news reports of the casualties.
Let’s hope that when this foray into mass murder ends, Palestinians and Israelis will find a way to forge some sort of peace.2
- We can say the same thing of Hamas firing rockets into Israel. Israel gets headline billing because it has killed and injured so many more civilians in the past few days. (back)
- I apologize for the lower than usual signal-to-platitude ratio, but (a) I’ve got the flu, and (b) I’m trying to word this in a way that doesn’t have me branded as a C list bigot. (back)
The (always entertaining) War Nerd has the best analysis I’ve seen answering the question
of why this is happening now and what is the long term exit strategy: i.e. there isn’t one
http://exiledonline.com/the-war-nerd-hamas-aint-no-hezbollah/
“Will it work? Depends on the time frame. For a few years, yes; in the long run, Hell no. But if you’re the IDF, there are no good options in the long term. Demographics, dude; no way out of that spiral. The short term is all you’ve got, and in the short term Hamas is going to find out why it’s not a good idea to pretend you’re Hezbollah when you can’t back it up.”