How many Israelis does it take to change a regime?
A companion question is: With all the fancy high-tech weapons Israel has (many of which are made in the U.S.A.), why can’t they hit the side of a barn door? I guess if they just blow up the whole barn, they don’t have to bother answering that one. Whoops, I guess we hit another hospital. Sorry, we weren’t aiming for those foreign journalists.
At the risk of repeating myself, if the Israelis want regime change in Gaza, they should just go ahead and do it and stop pretending they have other goals. But couldn’t they get it done without this level of carnage?
We’ve often heard it said that the definition of insanity is doing something painful over and over again and expecting a different result. Hamas can unrecognize Israel all it wants, but there is no scenario under which Israel is going to disappear. Similarly, Israel can’t expect Hamas to disappear, either. Trying to make it disappear hasn’t worked; it has simply given Hamas legs. What about trying another approach, if there are any left?
So there likely will be a unilateral Israeli cease-fire worked out with the help of the U.S., if there isn’t one already by the time you consume this. It will happen very conveniently just before Tuesday’s inauguration of a new American president, and before Israeli elections. And everyone will pretend that Hamas isn’t in the room.
But no one can pretend that 1,100-plus Palestinians haven’t died. Nor can anyone with an ounce of reason blame it all on Hamas. The United States and Israel are, in theory, friends and allies. But aren’t their times when you have to tell your friends they’re behaving badly?
There, now I’ve said it.
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