Israel has failed to understand that it cannot expel a people and call itself the victim; that it cannot conquer its neighbours and treat any and all resistance to that conquest as terrorism; that it cannot arm itself as a regional superpower and annihilate the institutional fabric of two peoples without incurring the fury of their children in the years that follow.
Cross-posted at Liberty & Power.
It may feel its only hope is to establish a deterrent by showing itself to be an awesome, perhaps slightly mad, retaliator. I think it's a losing strategy.
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