It occurs to me that HAMAS may just fade into the population. Let the Israelis come in and stay a while. Maybe do some street theater or a couple suiciders or IED’s. Low cost to HAMAS. Int’l pressure sends the IDF home; status quo ante.

Then what? Maybe what the Israelis need is a really good and fast counterbattery system that returns lots of fire on detection. But that would be messy and there’d be a lot of pics of poor Palis shot up by the evil Jooos and Cynthia McKinney giving aid.

(I had hoped when she moved to Calif we’d seen the last of her. One of the resentments of my life is that she used to be the congresscritter from my district.)

Alex #5 – I dont think the IDF or their masters have the stomach for Grozny south. I dont think any civilized country does.

The issue of the after withdrawal raises a question: What is the endgame for this? It cant go on forever. Something’s got to give. The Palis have to give up their faith in the destruction of Israel or the Israelis have to give up on life. All of the diplomats in the world involved in an infinite series of summits cant solve this. A lot of people are going to die, I’m afraid for this to be solved, if it ever is solved.