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More thoughts on Gaza

Tuesday, 6th January 2009

Christopher Hitchens, an admirer of Benny Morris, is still mulling over the deeply pessimistic op-ed that the revisionist historian published during the holidays:

To read Benny Morris is to be quite able—and quite free—to doubt that there should ever have been an Israeli state to begin with. But to see Hamas at work is to resolve that whatever replaces or follows Zionism, it must not be the wasteland of Islamic theocracy.
And an impassioned post from South Jerusalem's Haim Watzman: 
I would really like to punch Ismail Hanieh, the Hamas prime minister of the Gaza Strip, in the face. I would derive great pleasure from seeing every Hamas facility in Gaza reduced to rubble and every fanatical Islamic Jew-hater there blown to smithereens... I’ve done my time in the IDF and have a son in an elite unit. With my encouragement, my older daughter has for the last year and a half studied and lived in Sderot...Its precisely that experience and commitment that makes me sceptical of what military force can accomplish and aware of how killing hundreds of Palestinians and destroying their homes can exacerbate the conflict in the long term.
[Thanks, Simon]

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