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Gaza: waging useless war?
16/01/2009 By Stuart Reigeluth
Beyond speculation about the causes and culprits of the Gaza 2009 War, which has indeed become a chicken-and-egg exercise of finger-pointing propaganda, the results of the Israeli bombardment and invasion of the Gaza Strip will not lead to the full demise of Hamas, but rather to further postponing the possibility of a state called Palestine and peace with Israel.
Stuart Reigeluth
After a long slew of wars, this is another useless war being waged, at a very convenient time: coinciding with the transitional period in the U.S. between an exiting Bush administration favourable to Israel and high expectations from Obama’s entering team, as well as leading up to the Israeli elections in February 2009. Regardless of results, the issue at stake will be how to manage the borders of Gaza; that is if a two-state solution is still under consideration, or even realistically feasible, by then.
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Gaza Strip and West Bank Israel Middle EastBio author: Stuart Reigeluth
Stuart Reigeluth studied Political Science and Comparative Literature at Williams College and holds a Masters from the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (CAMES) at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
