Israel's Gaza Surge

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Author(s) The Wall Street Journal editorial board
Source The Wall Street Journal
Date January 4, 2009
URL http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123111931225252877.html
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Quotes-start.png "A nation like Israel, with enemies on all sides, must maintain an aura of invincibility if it is to have any chance at peaceful co-existence. It was that aura after two wars that induced Egypt to agree to peace with Israel in the 1970s. By contrast, the 2006 Lebanon campaign convinced radical Arabs and Persians that Israel had grown soft and could be beaten. Israel can't let Hamas maintain a similar mythology at the end of this operation, or the costs will be far higher down the road." Quotes-end.png


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This item argues for the position Israel was right to attack Gaza on the topic Gaza War.