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Operation High Risk: Is Israel Repeating Mistakes of the Past? - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
By Yassin Musharbash

Israel has promised a "war to the bitter end." Yet history is full of examples showing that battling an organization like Hamas is almost futile. It is a lesson Israel learned just two short years ago.

It was almost a century ago when the British soldier T.E. Lawrence described for posterity the World War I revolt of the Arabs against the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East. Lawrence helped organize the revolt, and he famously said that combating such an uprising was "like eating soup with a knife."




*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Sat Jan 3rd, 2009 at 03:30:38 PM EST
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history is full of examples showing that battling an organization like Hamas is almost futile. It is a lesson Israel learned just two short years ago.

Errr..no. If they'd learned it, they wouldn't be doing what they're doing. This is the insanity of doing what they did several times before and expecting a different result.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sat Jan 3rd, 2009 at 04:31:22 PM EST
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