I don't disagree with you entirely, asaris, but there is nothing to indicate that what the Israelis are doing is expedient in any way other than politically. Meanwhile, 700+ people who were walking around less than two weeks ago are now dead. And there is no reason to think that they died for anything other than a blanket enterprise in revenge upon a million people.
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