Jerry Rapp, in a letter to the New York Times published yesterday, made a good point about Gaza:
[T]he bottom line that remains is that a sovereign, democratic nation unilaterally withdrew from a disputed territory, handing same to its adversaries without any preconditions.
The response was an essentially nonstop barrage of thousands of rockets aimed at its civilians who do not reside in disputed territory. And many of these rockets were launched before Hamas took control of Gaza.
How would any other country on the planet react to such a provocation? Think, for example, of
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Five months after the
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Armed militias roam the streets; public figures are assassinated; “clans” engage in gunfights; kidnappings are common; public buildings are stormed by armed demonstrators; weapons smuggling has quadrupled (including rocket-propelled grenades, “tons of explosives,” and anti-aircraft missiles); rockets strike in or near Israeli cities and close to strategic targets (despite the “security zone” created in the area where settlements once stood); terrorists stream across an essentially un-policed border with Egypt; an “election” is scheduled between a terrorist organization and a corrupt ruling party that promised three years ago to dismantle it and didn’t (and maintains its own “loosely-linked” terrorist group as well).
Given a state, they created a reverse Leviathan — back to a state of nature in five months.
The party that was given a state in