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IAF Hits 70 Gaza Targets After Rockets Trigger Sirens

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Destro11/16/2012 8:56:38 pm PST

re: #11 Bob Levin

I try not to answer straw man questions.

I am offering an explanation of why people who are weak and aggreaved (and the Palestinians in this case are the weak ones here in a fight with Israel) resort to extremism and asymetrical warfare.

The Russian revolutionary left when it was fighting the Czarist autocracy had a phrase which has become the operating philiosphy of pretty much every guerilla movement “the worse the better”, and that is what Hamas is doing. The worst thing that can happen to repressive regimes like North Korea, Iran, Hamas is for things to get better.

China’s Communist Party is now more under threat than anytime since Chiang Kai-Shek all because Chinese are finding freedom through prosperity.

The notion that Israel will destroy Hamas in some sort of military attack is nonsense. It is what Hamas wants. Israel would have been better off fight Hamas by opening up the embargo and getting all those unemployed young men used as cannon fodder by Hamas a job catering to vactationing Europeans.

I swear, Europeans will vacation anywhere, even war zones. Yemen, off the coast of Somalia, you name it. I bet that would do more to end rocket attacks on Israel than what Netanyahu’s kooks can think up.