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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fascinating article from The Economist articulates the situation so well entitled

"Us and them" about Israel and the world and how they are possibly winning the battle but losing the war, it is the most accurate article I have read to date.

There are no winners here but Israel I am afraid has so much more at stake and will indeed lose a great deal.
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The biggest damage is not going to be in the area of public opinion.  Israel has counted on extracting such a penalty from opponents that it will deter them for a long time.  Instead, Gaza seems to be absorbing the punishment.  If Israel can't definitively "teach them a lesson", they lose the upper hand on the conflict.  More importantly they lose the confidence of Israelis.  They were extremely critical of the countr's performance in the last war for this very reason.  A part of the population will be critical of the military execution, and the other will be critical of the decision to escalate the situation in the first place.  Unlike Americans who think the whole thing started with rocket attacks, they know that it all began over three settler kids killed in WB and the crackdown that resulted.  And they will realize that since Hamas was not behind the killing, they miscalculated their response.[/quote]

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