Despite the heavy blow dealt to Hamas by the IDF, the improvement of the security situation in the South and the lower-than-expected number of casualties during combat, something very bad happened to Israeli society during the 22-day offensive in Gaza – dubbed Operation Cast Lead.
On the ethical and moral front, the war in Gaza exposed the many weaknesses of Israeli society. 650 innocent Palestinians, including 220 children, were killed and no one spoke up.
If the murders in the Sabra and Shatila camps during the Lebanon War brought hundreds of people to demonstrate in Israel’s city squares and induced shock and disgust within Israeli society, decades later when a similar number of innocent Palestinians have been killed, no one protested and no one took to the squares. Everyone was too busy being washed away in the wave of patriotism that overtook the country.
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Sri Lankan troops have captured the last Tamil Tiger rebel stronghold of Mullaitivu in the north-east of the island, the country’s army chief says.
“Yes, Dov. Yes, yes. Here is the purpose of Zionism: that we may be forgotten. That there will be no lovers of Jews and no haters of Jews in the world. No anti-Semites and no philo-Semites. That we may be just an ordinary nation, without lovers, without haters. That we may be, in short, a nation in its own land.
Two days after their last soldiers returned from Gaza, Israelis are asking increasingly whether the offensive had achieved anything other than spawning a new generation of potential suicide bombers.
After weeks of denying that it used white phosphorus in the heavily populated Gaza Strip, Israel finally admitted yesterday that the weapon was deployed in its offensive.
Every time Israel seeks to defend its civilians against terrorist attacks, it is accused of war crimes by various United Nations agencies, hard left academics and some in the media. It is a totally phony charge concocted as part of Hamas’ strategy – supported by many on the hard left – to delegitimize and demonize the Jewish state. Israel is the only democracy in the world ever accused of war crimes when it fights a defensive war to protect its civilians. This is remarkable, especially in light of the fact that Israel has killed far fewer civilians than any other country in the world that has faced comparable threats.
Indian police have said they have shot dead two suspected militants after a car chase near the capital, Delhi.
President Barack Obama is expected to send more troops, trainers, and resources to Afghanistan, a mission long overshadowed by the larger, more robust U.S. deployment in Iraq. Yet beyond relatively vague plans to draw down forces in one war and increase them by thirty thousand in another–bringing to roughly sixty thousand the number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan–some analysts say Obama’s overarching strategy remains something of a mystery. “They are picking up after a period in which the Bush administration was very ambitious in rhetoric and not at all ambitious in resource,” CFR Senior Fellow Daniel Markey tells CFR.org. “And now, the question is, how do they intend to square that?”
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