[Peace-discuss] no green light?

[Randall Cotton]

"By getting its soldiers out before the Obama inauguration, Israel hopes
to pave the way for a smooth beginning with the Obama administration and
spare the incoming president the trouble of having to deal with a burning
problem in Gaza from his first day, the Israeli officials said."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ioi_0jtO9RjMwPNRoXNCndRPRq3gD95Q69M00

This seems to me that Israel received a signal (or gathered intelligence)
that the Obama administration would not be supportive of any further
military action in Gaza. It is very difficult for me to believe that they
would be pulling out unilaterally like this, and so quickly, under these
conditions if they had anything resembling a green light from the incoming
administration.

The lack of a green light here would be an improvement, though of course,
anything but a red light remains morally bankrupt.

R