[Peace-discuss] no green light?

[Randall Cotton]

" Olmert said he had considered allowing the army to continue the attack
as GOC Southern Command Maj. Gen Yoav Gallant had sought, but felt this
would have required a period of time 'for which we did not a sufficient
diplomatic window.' "

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1057390.html

Again, I suspect the likely chain of events here is that:

1. Israel will continue their blockade, allowing only marginal and very
restricted cargo through.

2. Largely as a result, as a cause-and-effect reality, Hamas (and/or maybe
others) will resume firing rockets at Israel.

3. Israel will respond with overwhelmingly disproportionate and
indiscriminate violence as already demonstrated ("Foreign Affairs and
Defense Committee Chairman Tzachi Hanegbi told Army Radio. "If the
[rocket] fire resumes, we will respond with force so strong and
overpowering, they will miss the day the Israel Air Force's offensive
began." This from the same article above.

4. We wind up with a decisive, empirical litmus test of Obama's foreign
policy "change".

R

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From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu>
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: [Tuesday evening in Gaza would be about noon in DC. --CGE]
:
: Jan 20, 2009 18:27
: IAF planes strike Kassam rocket launchers in Gaza
: By JPOST.COM STAFF
:
: IAF planes struck a Kassam rocket launcher in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday
evening,
: hours after two incidents of gunfire and mortar shell fire were reported
against
: IDF troops in the area.
:
: The strike was the first of the kind since Israel unilaterally implement
a
: cease-fire at 2:00 a.m. on Sunday.
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