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except that the israeli military and the political right/ultra-right need that command structure to plausibly be in place because it allows for the marketing of the Cause in the way it is marketed.
for example, if you don't want to make any meaningful progress with the west bank because it will inevitably mean dismantling the settlements, then the myth of a symmetrical conflict is useful. that's it's obviously entirely false is beside the point. reality is always secondary in these matters.
the fate of the ultra-right is directly at stake in this, and that of the political right is by extension.
your position presupposes that there's actually an interest in taking out hamas. there isn't any such interest. the only thing that interested the israeli right less than that was allowing hamas to govern, so to moderate. that would have been bad bad bad. whence the siege.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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