Gaza FAQ

Jan 05, 2009 15:00

I invite more questions to add to this list.Q: Why did Israel break the cease-fire ( Read more... )

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strange_selkie January 5 2009, 21:24:30 UTC
Very well-worded.

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tovaks January 5 2009, 22:51:30 UTC
THANK YOU FOR THIS!

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jonahrank January 6 2009, 05:44:41 UTC
Amen.

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eitanhalevy January 6 2009, 06:07:17 UTC
May I use this? If I do so outside of LJ land how should I credit you?

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shirei_shibolim January 6 2009, 17:39:58 UTC
Feel free to use it, but keep in mind that, unfortunately, the death toll statistics are already out of date.

I don't really care about being given credit. My one concern is that any additions that get made are well thought out and factual. I wrote this because most of the similar documents I've seen on the Internet are mainly emotional arguments, and often have racist undertones.

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fleurdelis28 January 9 2009, 03:26:54 UTC
Question: Taking as a given that Israel has an absolute abstract right to act as it has, what does it hope to get out of it, and is this a reasonable and worthwhile means of achieving it?

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shirei_shibolim January 9 2009, 03:59:36 UTC
Taking as a given that you know this isn't the sort of purely fact-based question I was hoping for . . .

The official answer is that it hopes to disrupt Hamas's ability to snuff out Israelis at random from a distance. In that case, I can't really think of any other way of doing it.

There's speculation that it may be an attempt to delegitimize Hamas as a governing power. This may be working in some places, particularly the West Bank, but its results in Gaza would probably be mixed at best.

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fleurdelis28 March 8 2009, 02:19:35 UTC
(No, but it was the sort of question I was most frequently being asked.)

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