‘Next week, or the week
after, Barack Obama may well see intelligence reports of tank
battalions moving south and west along Israeli highways, and whole
infantry brigades setting up camp in the western Negev. The
countdown to the Second Gaza War has begun in earnest. Date it, if you
like, to Sunday, and a coolly terrifying analysis by Yom Tov Samia,
former overall Israeli military commander of the Gaza Strip and the
adjacent Negev.
Or date it, if you
prefer, according to the axiom of contemporary Israeli history which
reads: A future war becomes all but inevitable the moment a key IDF
reserve major general declares it so. Alternatively,
date it from the moment that selective amnesia allows Israeli political
figures to court the illusion that Hamas can be invaded to death.’
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