Article explains why Israel is blowing it with their latest offensive. 1,500 legitimate military targets in a dusty strip of land? Really? I have great difficulty believing that.
http://www.businessinsider.com/israel-ground-offensive-strategic-mistake-2014-7 ᧠So is Israel incompetent? Or were its actions in Lebanon simply meant to do as much damage and wreak as much destruction as possible? Therefore mission accomplished. And similarly here, are they incompetent and unable to think strategically? Or is the intent something totally different than peace? "The Israeli government seems to have forgotten how to think strategically; at the very least, they have a self-destructive tendency to overplay their hands. For instance, in 2006, when Hezbollah made incursions into Israel from southern Lebanon, the entire Arab League condemned the actionâan unprecedented actâand Egypt offered to host a summit where the League would consider actions. But then, Israel escalated the conflict, retaliating with massive, disproportionate air strikes, turning Hezbollah into local heroes and, more seriously, alienating the neighboring Arab states. Egypt called off the summit; the chance for a genuine strategic pivot was blown. Now theyâre blowing it again. Until this conflict with Gaza, Israel had been enjoying a level of security it hadnât seen in many years. Terrorist attacks from the West Bank are all but nonexistent. Its enemies to the northâSyria, Hezbollah, and a gaggle of Islamist terrorist movementsâare embroiled in their own wars with one another. Egypt is once again in the firm grip of a military government committed to putting down the Muslim Brotherhood and its allies (including Hamas). Iran hasâat least for nowâfrozen its nuclear program, as a result of negotiations led by the Obama administration. And speaking of the beleaguered President Obama, the Iron Dome anti-missile shield, whose production he greatly accelerated, has shot down the few dozenâout of several hundredâHamas rockets that would have exploded in Israeli cities. As a result, Hamasâ rocketsâmost of which have landed in the middle of nowhereâhave killed just one Israeli, while Israeli air strikes have killed more than 200 Palestinians and wounded another 1,500-plus, most of them civilians, many of them children, including the four children <http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/16/witness-gaza-shelling-first-hand-account> whose deaths while playing on the beach were captured by photographers on the scene. Fatality ratios mean little up to a point, but a 200-to-1 ratio seems awfully disproportionate. Israeli bombs have struck 1,500 targets in Gaza so farâanother remarkable fact: Who knew there were 1,500 militarily legitimate targets in that tiny, impoverished strip of land?" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:371768 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
