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Recommended Readings: February 2008 Archives

Israeli writer Gorenberg is the author of "The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977"
Does the breach in the wall mean that siege of Gaza has come to an end? Not at all.

Yedioth Ahronoth OpEd: "A Dignified Way Out" by Giora Eiland

A solution to the problem of the Kassam rocket fire from Gaza requires making three assumptions. Ignoring them or some of them will lead to erroneous decisions.

Ynet: "Dichter: Sderot is a battered and empty city"

'As I entered Sderot I saw desolated streets. People are shutting themselves in their houses,' he says

Ynet: "Olmert on Sderot: Anger is not an action plan"

"...residents' anger is 'understandable and natural, but what is needed is systematic and organized action over time."
"Israel must not fall into the trap that Hamas is laying for us and march into Gaza."

Ha'aretz Editorial: "Fall on the right sword"

If there is any realpolitik justification for Olmert's continued tenure, it lies in the faint hope that if the prime minister is already fated to fall, he will at least choose to fall on the sword of peace efforts rather than the sword of a failed war.
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