From an analysis in tomorrow's Haaretz::
From Hamas' perspective, the Sajaiyeh incident that
left 3 IDF troops dead Monday is a significant first achievement. For
the first time, Israeli TV broadcasts raised the question of whether it
was worthwhile for the operation to continue….
With the Palestinians already having suffered 550 dead and 2,700
injured, the Sajaiyeh incident is the first revenge by the people of
Gaza. Until that incident last night, it seemed as if Hamas' distress
was pushing it toward a diplomatic solution.
left 3 IDF troops dead Monday is a significant first achievement. For
the first time, Israeli TV broadcasts raised the question of whether it
was worthwhile for the operation to continue….
With the Palestinians already having suffered 550 dead and 2,700
injured, the Sajaiyeh incident is the first revenge by the people of
Gaza. Until that incident last night, it seemed as if Hamas' distress
was pushing it toward a diplomatic solution.
From Jules Rabin, in a piece submitted days ago to the Marshfield, VT, newspaper:
When a certain Rabbi Perin said, in a funeral eulogy for an American-born
Israeli who had been beaten to death by a Palestinian mob, "A million Arabs
are not worth one Jewish fingernail," the world was shocked and the Israeli
Prime Minister himself denounced the statement. The murdered Israeli was
Baruch Goldstein, who on February 28, 1994, had stepped into a mosque
carrying an assault rifle, and killed 29 Palestinian men and boys before his
gun jammed….
Now in Gaza, a more modest version of the stunning ratio suggested by
Rabbi Perin, the million and the one, is being enacted.
