Germany’s Bid to Keep Israel off the UN Security Council
Is building a porch worse than providing Syria with the materials to make chemical weapons?
March 21, 2018
Going beyond deterrence, the IDF is trying to defang the terror group.
For the past several years, the IDF’s approach to Gaza has primarily been reactive: it has responded to occasional rocket fire and other attacks with limited, precision strikes aimed at deterring Hamas from going any farther. But Israel’s response last weekend to the targeting of its border patrol by means of an explosive device speaks to a new strategy. Ron Ben-Yishai explains:
Is building a porch worse than providing Syria with the materials to make chemical weapons?
Going beyond deterrence, the IDF is trying to defang the terror group.
Postmodern subjectivity combined with utopianism.
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Spending the Korean war in Texas.
For the past several years, the IDF’s approach to Gaza has primarily been reactive: it has responded to occasional rocket fire and other attacks with limited, precision strikes aimed at deterring Hamas from going any farther. But Israel’s response last weekend to the targeting of its border patrol by means of an explosive device speaks to a new strategy. Ron Ben-Yishai explains:
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