Old article but most still ring true, in thisterrorwar.... including regarding Hezbollah
Extracts: As the columnist Anshel Pfeffer wrote in the Israeli paper Haaretz,
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“The very idea that Israel needed to take any responsibility whatsoever for the place from which those who had murdered, raped and pillaged had emerged was seen as a moral abomination”
Pfeffer continued,
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because of this moral abomination attitude, “the government’s policy on humanitarian supplies to Gaza is a combination of vengeance, ignorance and incompetence”
Pfeffer quoted unnamed IDF officials who acknowledged that of course Israel is responsible for the welfare of the people in the area it controls but that the civilian leaders refuse to confront this
On occasions when Israel has responded to world pressure and shifted policy, it has done so in secret, with no discussion in the cabinet
An officer whose duties specifically include addressing the needs of civilians told Pfeffer that
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he didn’t have much to do except for some odd jobs
Israel is failing to lay the groundwork for some sort of better Palestinian future — to its own detriment
The security experts I, [Brooks] spoke with acknowledge that providing humanitarian aid will be hard
Raphael Cohen, the director of the strategy and doctrine program at the RAND Corporation said,
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“If the Israeli military takes over distributing humanitarian aid to Gaza, they will likely lose soldiers in the process
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And so Israelis are asking why should their boys die providing aid to someone who wants to kill them
So the United States needs to convince Israel that this is the morally and strategically right thing to do”
