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Monday, January 5, 2009 12:00 AM

Why Israelis support the Gaza offensive

Israel's post-traumatic war is not just about stopping Hamas rockets, but about repairing reputations -- and erasing the stain of failure.

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  • Monday, January 5, 2009 06:25 PM

    dick dworkin

    which is exactly why they have to split the territory between them and have two separate states, BUT this will not happen until the Jewish state can live free from attack, however ineffectual.

    Since that will never happen then the Jewish Israelis will just have to either wait for the demographic time bomb to overwhelm them or engage in literal genocide. If it's genocide that the Zionists choose then Jews worldwide will suffer a monstrous backlash, it won't be right but it will happen.

    I sincerely wish it didn't have to be that way but this outcome has been more or less inevitable ever since 1948.

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