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Gaza showdown
Nikkoru:
I visited Iran last year as part of an architectural project, although the level of skill they displayed I certainly counted on for my work going in, I still didn't expect so many of the Iranians I talked with to be so conscious and opinionated on what was going on in the world, it made me feel parochial and unsophisticated.
Then again, I was only in Tehran for two and a half month and usually in the affluent areas.
relic2279:
Everyone needs one of these:
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Semnae:
Israel called a ceasefire and withdrew! >:( Come on Israel, where's your fucking follow through!?! This isn't going to end until Hamas is overthrown. Get back in there and finish what you started!
AceHigh:
--- Quote from: Semnae on January 21, 2009, 09:59:13 AM ---Israel called a ceasefire and withdrew! >:( Come on Israel, where's your fucking follow through!?! This isn't going to end until Hamas is overthrown. Get back in there and finish what you started!
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WORD. This will be a bigger catastrophe when Hamas retaliates.
lx4:
Israel cant destroy Hamas without a much larger and longer military operation, that has some real problems.
Israel has tried to minimize civilian casualties, even then hundreds of civilians have died if Israel would go all out it would probably be thousends and not hundreds of dead civilians.
A lot of Israeli soldiers would die, now amazingly only ten soldiers have died. Israel has tried to stay out of the highly populated areas of Gaza as much as possible, that would have to change
There is an election coming up in Israel and Kadima needs the Gaza war to be a success to win, they cant accept high Israeli casualties.
The longer the war goes on and the more Palestinians that die, the more international pressure on Israel will increase. I think this is the most important reason why the Gaza war was cut short. Israel doesnt want to seriously hurt their relationship with Europe and its completely dependent on America. It needs American money, weapons and support in the security council.
The US isnt criticizing Israel openly but you can be sure they have been pressuring Israel. Now there is a new president, if Hamas strikes Israel again they can go back in with new support from the Obama administration and the fact that Hamas broke the ceasefire and not Israel will shut up Europe for a while.
Hopefully the war has been enough to teach terrorists that fucking with Israel has consequence. Israel has hopefully been able to destroy most of the rocket stockpiles in Gaza and stopped most of the smuggling from Egypt. Hopefully it has considerably weakened Hamas, I wish that Fatah can use this opportunity to take control of Gaza but I doubt it. Hamas has been terrible at killing Israeli soldiers but they have been very good at killing or breaking the arms and legs of Fatah members in Gaza during the war to stop any takeover.
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