Some joyous tidings from Israel

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Many pages "full of sound and fury...."


Basic issue has not changed. Current Israeli efforts in Gaza are either a) way too much because all they will do is incite more of the same while providing only a temporary attentuation OR b) way too little because using violence as the tool-of-choice here is only likely to be effective if pursued at near-pogromattic levels.

What they ARE doing is more of the same -- another round of the Gaza Gavotte.

I loathe this.



Consider:

You are playing M2TW and have a unit of spear militia facing an enemy unit of town militia on an open grassy plain.

You keep circling, trying to flank them, but all they do is shift front to face you nose to nose.

Once you have done this once or twice, don't you do SOMETHING differently? Or do you always go after the town militia the same way, wondering why they won't stand still and let you flank them?



Why has Israel and the IDF not absorbed this lesson? Is there some Israeli power-cadre or sect that benefits in Israel's internal power-dynamic from promoting violence without resolution? Such factions certainly exist among the Arab/Palestinian groups, so it is easy to see why they always have someone willing to encourage Israel to attack. Why does Israel follow suit so predictably?


And yes, the last paragraph are serious questions, not trolling. Trolling is not my style. I'd particularly like to hear from some of our Israeli members on this issue.