Posts on this subject are obviously fraught, so a few things up front:
- the moral question is simple: Palestinian liberation is right & necessary
- the praxis is complicated: antisemitic entryism into the movement for liberation is subtle, pervasive, and unacceptable
- the history is complicated: I have a survey of it which addresses many common misunderstandings on all sides
- I keep an index of resources — my posts and others’
Big Media Matthew Yglasias weighs the tactical antiterrorist value of our recent success in killing Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
The Israelis certainly have proven a lot of things about the tactical/operational aspects of counterterrorism time and again. And, indeed, again. And again. They’ve proven them so often, for so long, that one might almost conclude that tactical counterterrorism accomplishes very little absent resolution of the underlying political conflicts.
Maybe the Israelis aren’t trying hard enough.
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