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Dealing with law enforcement is fine, and what I would argue for myself, when the terrorists are operating from your own territory. But whatever its reasons may have been, Israel withdrew from Gaza; it's Hamas' territory, not Israel's. So when Hamas is unable or unwilling to stop the attacks on Israel, or complicit in the attacks, law enforcement isn't really an option for Israel. The UKs problem was one in its own territory, Northern Ireland.
(And yes Roachboy, nation states are becoming obsolete. But I don't think they're obsolete yet, or will ever become entirely such as long as people tend to think through that lens. So it's not a mistake to analyze a solution in terms of nation-states; the perception of the participants that they are part of such objects makes them real.)
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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