War now or War later: Levantine options are varying degrees of bad
When good people do nothing in the face of great evil, evil wins. What is happening in Gaza today and has been happening almost nonstop for the past 80 plus days, is calculated mass murder, torture, and depriving human beings of food, medicine, warmth, security, dignity and life itself, with the goal of either evicting every last Palestinian from Gaza, or at the very least having Israel dominate the strip completely and replace the Hamas-led native government with an Israeli military regime. Such a regime would have one mission, to make local Palestinians’ lives so miserable that they would pack up and leave of their own volition eventually. The Gazan War’s end is being planned now in the corridors of power in the United States and Israel; a marriage of pure evil, two nations who have truly earned this moniker! Part of that "deal" most likely includes buffer zones, some permanent Israeli military presence on the periphery, denial of any reconstruction material entering Gaza,...