By Barry Rubin
FOR decades, Israel's history shows a general pattern: its neighbours attack, Israel responds, Israel wins the war, and the world rushes to ensure that its victory is limited or nullified. If, as sometimes happens, the diplomatic process really improves the situation and provides progress for peace that, of course, is beneficial.
Yet Israel's experience has shown that international promises made in return for its material concessions are often broken.
In order to resolve this crisis, the international community must co-operate in the removal of the Hamas regime. It is an illegal government, brought to power by an unprovoked war against the Palestinian Authority (PA), which was the internationally recognised regime in the Gaza Strip. Hamas may have won the elections but it then seized total power, suspended representative government, and destroyed the opposition.
Moreover, Hamas is a radical terrorist group that openly uses anti-Semitic rhetoric and actively seeks to wipe Israel off the map. Read more ...
FOR decades, Israel's history shows a general pattern: its neighbours attack, Israel responds, Israel wins the war, and the world rushes to ensure that its victory is limited or nullified. If, as sometimes happens, the diplomatic process really improves the situation and provides progress for peace that, of course, is beneficial.
Yet Israel's experience has shown that international promises made in return for its material concessions are often broken.
In order to resolve this crisis, the international community must co-operate in the removal of the Hamas regime. It is an illegal government, brought to power by an unprovoked war against the Palestinian Authority (PA), which was the internationally recognised regime in the Gaza Strip. Hamas may have won the elections but it then seized total power, suspended representative government, and destroyed the opposition.
Moreover, Hamas is a radical terrorist group that openly uses anti-Semitic rhetoric and actively seeks to wipe Israel off the map. Read more ...
Source: The Age
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