David Bromwich has written an excellent piece today at the Huffington Post about Israel’s failed strategy with respect to Gaza. His assessment of this failed approach is summed in in the following paragraph:
This deadlock in the middle of apparent victory was inevitable. You cannot bomb a people into partnership. You cannot obliterate a people into a just and lasting peace. You cannot drive deep into their consciousness the knowledge that they are a defeated people and, when you have finished your education through violence, come to treat them as moral and political equals with yourself. So Israel is now at a loss. It cannot see its beginnings in this vision of its triumph.
This somewhat long piece is worth a look as background to our earlier piece on Israel and Gaza today.
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