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Re: Re: Re: As the Zeitgeist turns: War, Winograd and What next
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Amos
I just don't see the relevance. The decision to go to war in the way that the government did may have been a mistake, but this mistake did not arise from a view of this being a conflict between good and evil. The justification for the air operations came first from the abduction of the soldiers and then from the fact that missiles were raining on Haifa. These constituted reason enough to respond militarily. What is obvious now is that a) the aims of this military response presented by both the political and military spheres were completely fantastical, and that b) different means (some diplomatic, some military) might have been more effective and would definitely have led to less destruction (of Israeli soldiers' lives, Israeli society, and the Lebanese people).
I am not sure what you think would have been a more legitimate reason for the protests in Tel Aviv. Maybe Israelis should have flocked to the square with the message that "war is evil."
A non-sequitur: When I read the German and French press, I see repeated assertions to the effect that Israel has to learn that "war is not the way." The funny thing is that this is the mantra that the Europeans have been promoting for the past half-century (no doubt with good reason, given their own experiences), regardless of the conflict involved. But is this really the lesson of the Lebanon war that Israel should draw?
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