Hostilities in the Middle East escalated over the weekend as rockets targeting Tel Aviv and Jerusalem were launched by the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza.
While Israeli forces intend to only target the terrorist infrastructure in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, increasing attacks may bring Israel to launch its first ground invasion there in four years.
Rashid Khalidi, professor of modern Arab studies at Columbia University, discusses the structure of Hamas and their economic, social, and political role in Gaza. Noel King is a freelance reporter in Cairo.
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It is refreshing that a well researched and historically documented book on the status and conditions of the Palestinians has finally been written. There can be no question that the policies and practices that the Isreali government has imposed on the people of Palestine are a holocaust, and arparthid as practiced in South Africa. How can people who have been victims of these autrocties be in denial of what they are carrying out against the PAlestinian, and forget their own history? Thank you Prof. Rashid Kalidi for this scholarly work that brings to light the facts surrounding the Palestinian situation.
The Obama Administration is publicly saying that Israel 'has the right to defend itself' but apparently in private is telling Israel that if it goes through with a ground invasion, and it might not have any choice, that the U.S. would be kind of slow in supplying replacement parts for their air force.
I hope a ground war can be averted. It would be ground beef... How do we become a world that can surrender to war? Ego, political gain, financial gain, historical pain...
Pain and gain keeps wars rolling along
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