Further evidence that the Israel lobby is delaminating. Larry Johnson, an ex-CIA security pro and former counter-terrorism guy at State who looks on Hamas as a terror organization (sorry, there's no accounting for taste), says that Israel's strategy is "bulls–t".
Sorry, but the Israeli military is acting like a bunch of pathetic
thugs rather than conduct themselves with professionalism and skill.
You do not just kill Palestinians because you can. You kill the assholes shooting the rockets/missiles. Israel has the
means to do that but clearly prefers killing large numbers of
Palestinians.
Johnson says the technology is there to avoid the slaughter Israel is performing. Says my informant: "Johnson is surely right at least with regard to the US having the technology to immediately respond automatically to the source of fire without needing to resort to indiscriminate killing. I wonder why Israel doesn't use this technology as it seems proportional, effective and well, less likely to make all of Gaza hate Israelis. It also encourages other Gazans to discourage people from firing rockets near population centers because the response is so direct and automatic.
"Larry Johnson is over the top in some of his accusations, but it seems clear that the IDF did this because it wanted to hurt Hamas as an organization and kill a lot of people, it was not an effective
attempt to stop rocket fire."
