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Israel and Gaza - a testament to terrible failure : Comments

By Richard Hil, published 6/1/2009

Bombing Gaza is a testament to international policy failure under which the rights of Palestinians have been systematically trampled.

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"It may well be that nuclear-armed Israel has only two choices. It can die quietly. Or it can go down guns blazing taking as many of its enemies as possible with it along with over a third of the world's oil pumping capacity.

Which option do you think they'd choose?"

stevenlmeyer,

I imagine if Israel felt like it was being killed at the hands of an Arab country it wouldn't hesitate to use a nuclear bomb. At least in the current paradigm. In 10-20 years who knows how Israel will see itself in the world and how things will pan out.

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It makes sense that Hizbollah did not join in with Hamas as that would have upped the ante considerably. I imagine either the Arab countries are worried about Israel using a nuke or, as you suggest, domestic political support in Gaza and the West Bank is not as robust as the militant Arab leaders would have everyone believe.
Posted by RobP, Sunday, 18 January 2009 7:44:42 PM
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