"...military experts in Israel and the West believe the IDF is capable of retaking Gaza. Israeli reservations about a broad military operation, therefore, are mainly linked to the question of what happens afterward..."
Here Harel states the obvious, of course the West and Israel know that retaking Gaza is doable.
But the author also effectively decouples the West from the equation of the aftermath.
What will Israel do being faced head on with that $17 million a day drain that Haaretz wrote about a couple of weeks ago?
Will Israel charge in and make Gaza a bloody mess and then hand that off to Bibi and Obama?
Has Bush given the go ahead as in the debacle of the Second Lebanon War? |
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