Iron Domes and the rejection of the Two-State solution:
Benjamin Nutandyahoo, the heroic American Jew who decided that American Jews aren't properly Jewish enough to be Israelis, has been able to reap good PR for his Iron Dome missile defense system:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israel-shoots-down-hamas-drone/2014/07/14/991c46da-0b47-11e4-b8e5-d0de80767fc2_story.html
In classical Israeli fashion, Israel, when using an extremely advanced anti-missile defense provided by a superpower sugar daddy claims that Hamas, incapable as per the usual Palestinian pattern of winning a battle, let alone a war, is somehow a credible threat to a state with some 400 nuclear weapons and a highly-expensive American-provided missile defense system.
Israel has been warned against a ground offensive, and to be fair to the Israelis, they might actually stand a chance of not repeating the 2006 incident against Hezbollah against Hamas, because Hamas is again utterly feckless at a military level:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/182904#.U8WfpbEzTzM
Israel, as usual, has already ignored the warning and the IDF has launched a ground incursion:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/israeli-ground-troops-raid-gaza-bombing-continues-article-1.1864953
Nutandyahoo, as per usual, is entitled enough to delude himself into the view that the world will sympathize with Israeli actions, as the world's sympathy to other states whose civilians are regularly massacred by terrorists like say, Turkey, India, Russia, Peru, and the like has made clear. Truly, the world's sympathies are utterly and totally predictable on this level and would never be any different for this one state when these factors apply to all the others.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/182938#.U8Wf3rEzTzM
The Israelis regularly vow to use overwhelming force to pulverize Hamas's poorly-aimed missiles, and have developed missile shields that theoretically are supposed to nullify the very threat of said missiles to begin with. Hamas keeps firing these missiles in perpetuity without much of any evident effect, blockade or no blockade, war or not a war, be damned. Somehow, in some way, the Israelis are convinced that all the running they can do to stay in the same place will lead them to the end of the rainbow, but the quest's repeated failure inclines one to believe that the rhetoric of Nutandyahoo is just an obfuscation for a deeper issue. In particular, one might be inclined to believe that the Iron Dome's supposed effectiveness and convenient ineffectiveness whenever most convenient indicates that this is the incident that Israel might use to illustrate how superficial its withdrawal from Gaza was in the first place.
In short, if the iron Dome is this super-effective weapon that nullifies all threats, then three kidnapped Israelis and one dead Palestinian are not justification for a massive ground troop deployment. If the Iron Dome is an overly expensive white elephant that fails to deliver, then Hamas is still not a credible challenge to the IDF, but the ground troop deployment makes more sense. Israel loves to claim to be simultaneously an 800 pound gorilla and Popeye sans spinach facing the incredible Hulk. It cannot be both at once and people who accept that it is both at once should question why an extremely effective missile defense system needs tens of thousands of ground troops to bolster an invulnerable system with a 100% success rate.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israel-shoots-down-hamas-drone/2014/07/14/991c46da-0b47-11e4-b8e5-d0de80767fc2_story.html
In classical Israeli fashion, Israel, when using an extremely advanced anti-missile defense provided by a superpower sugar daddy claims that Hamas, incapable as per the usual Palestinian pattern of winning a battle, let alone a war, is somehow a credible threat to a state with some 400 nuclear weapons and a highly-expensive American-provided missile defense system.
Israel has been warned against a ground offensive, and to be fair to the Israelis, they might actually stand a chance of not repeating the 2006 incident against Hezbollah against Hamas, because Hamas is again utterly feckless at a military level:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/182904#.U8WfpbEzTzM
Israel, as usual, has already ignored the warning and the IDF has launched a ground incursion:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/israeli-ground-troops-raid-gaza-bombing-continues-article-1.1864953
Nutandyahoo, as per usual, is entitled enough to delude himself into the view that the world will sympathize with Israeli actions, as the world's sympathy to other states whose civilians are regularly massacred by terrorists like say, Turkey, India, Russia, Peru, and the like has made clear. Truly, the world's sympathies are utterly and totally predictable on this level and would never be any different for this one state when these factors apply to all the others.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/182938#.U8Wf3rEzTzM
The Israelis regularly vow to use overwhelming force to pulverize Hamas's poorly-aimed missiles, and have developed missile shields that theoretically are supposed to nullify the very threat of said missiles to begin with. Hamas keeps firing these missiles in perpetuity without much of any evident effect, blockade or no blockade, war or not a war, be damned. Somehow, in some way, the Israelis are convinced that all the running they can do to stay in the same place will lead them to the end of the rainbow, but the quest's repeated failure inclines one to believe that the rhetoric of Nutandyahoo is just an obfuscation for a deeper issue. In particular, one might be inclined to believe that the Iron Dome's supposed effectiveness and convenient ineffectiveness whenever most convenient indicates that this is the incident that Israel might use to illustrate how superficial its withdrawal from Gaza was in the first place.
In short, if the iron Dome is this super-effective weapon that nullifies all threats, then three kidnapped Israelis and one dead Palestinian are not justification for a massive ground troop deployment. If the Iron Dome is an overly expensive white elephant that fails to deliver, then Hamas is still not a credible challenge to the IDF, but the ground troop deployment makes more sense. Israel loves to claim to be simultaneously an 800 pound gorilla and Popeye sans spinach facing the incredible Hulk. It cannot be both at once and people who accept that it is both at once should question why an extremely effective missile defense system needs tens of thousands of ground troops to bolster an invulnerable system with a 100% success rate.