I'll stipulate that neither of us really
knows what happened. Neither can any reporter, by the way. The "fog of war" is well known.
What I want is a clean result. Until now, outsiders kept mixing in to prevent Israel from having a clean victory. That allowed the Hizbullahs of the world to survive to rearm and fight another day. This time it looks like Israel isn't biting, and they really shouldn't.
The "human shields" strategy works only because Westerners let it:
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One more thing, speaking of pornography -- we've all seen endless pictures of dead Palestinian children now. It's a terrible, ghastly, horrible thing, the deaths of children, and for the parents it doesn't matter if they were killed by accident or by mistake. But ask yourselves this: Why are these pictures so omnipresent? I'll tell you why, again from firsthand, and repeated, experience: Hamas (and the Aksa Brigades, and Islamic Jihad, the whole bunch) prevents the burial, or even preparation of the bodies for burial, until the bodies are used as props in the Palestinian Passion Play. Once, in Khan Younis, I actually saw gunmen unwrap a shrouded body, carry it a hundred yards and position it atop a pile of rubble -- and then wait a half-hour until photographers showed. It was one of the more horrible things I've seen in my life. And it's typical of Hamas. If reporters would probe deeper, they'd learn the awful truth of Hamas. But Palestinian moral failings are not of great interest to many people.
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That's from Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic,
here.