Israel-Palästina

[ThomasWach]

Erich und ich sind hier auf einer Linie, aber eben nicht nur Erich und ich...

ISRAELS GAZA-STRATEGIE
Operation volles Risiko
Von Yassin Musharbash

"Krieg bis zum bitteren Ende" hat Israel geschworen - dabei ist der Kampf einer regulären Armee gegen eine Organisation wie die Hamas militärisch nicht zu gewinnen. Das hat der desaströse Feldzug gegen die Hisbollah vor zwei Jahren bewiesen.
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Quelle:
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,...63,00.html

und

Olmert's Final Failure

By Jackson Diehl
Monday, December 29, 2008; Page A15

Israel's new battle with Hamas in Gaza means that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will be remembered for fighting two bloody and wasteful mini-wars in less than three years in power. The first one, in Lebanon during the summer of 2006, punished but failed to defeat or even permanently injure Hezbollah, which is politically and militarily stronger today than it was before Olmert took office. This one will probably have about the same effect on Hamas, which almost certainly will still control Gaza, and retain the capacity to strike Israel, when Olmert leaves office in a few months.
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Instead of a groundbreaking accord with Abbas or Assad, he will leave behind scorched earth in Gaza, a Lebanese front bristling with Hezbollah's missiles and an Israeli West Bank presence that has expanded rather than contracted during the past two years, with thousands of new homes for Jewish settlers under construction.
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Olmert badly miscalculated in launching the 2006 offensive against Hezbollah -- and he's probably making the same mistake in Gaza, which will cost many lives
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Quelle:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...01277.html