Israel Should Not Fight Its War Alone
Anyone who professes to have the best interests of either Israelis or Palestinians at heart should work toward a short conflict and a long-lasting peace.
Dark days ahead.
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Even now, the full scale of the horror visited on Israel by Hamas terrorists last weekend is hard to fathom. A brief scan of the news yields images of mangled bodies and slaughtered innocents; footage of terrified young people, gunned down or carted off in captivity at a music festival; witness accounts of elderly and disabled victims, indiscriminately killed. A massacre at the kibbutz of Kfar Aza included young children.
Dark days lie ahead. Hundreds of thousands of Israeli troops are preparing to cross into Gaza, facing a bloody, street-to-street fight. Their stated goal is to destroy Hamas as a fighting force. Any nations that have the best interests of either Israelis or Palestinians at heart ought to help Israel to complete that task swiftly — and to find a longer-lasting solution once the fighting has ceased.