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"I've said it before and will say it again. Nothing that Hamas did justifies Israel's response. Nothing. Does this mean I suggest that Israel has no right to defend itself? I never said that. I said from day one that Israel should have used its vast intelligence network (which somehow failed on Oct. 7, but that is another story) and its Special Forces, to hunt down the perpetrators and bring them to justice." Michael Rectenwald, until he recently retired Professor of Liberal Studies at New York University.
"Yet the US is also wrestling with the entirely contradictory aims of supporting Israel while dampening regional tensions, in a conflict which has already leapfrogged to the Red Sea in a manner America is struggling to deal with. Already under pressure from his own electoral base for his support of a war which half his 2020 voters now believe is genocidal, the widening crisis has drawn its first American blood, in a deployment at least partly undertaken for Israel’s benefit." Aris Roussinos, Unherd, Sunday, 28 January 2024
"Yet the US is also wrestling with the entirely contradictory aims of supporting Israel while dampening regional tensions, in a conflict which has already leapfrogged to the Red Sea in a manner America is struggling to deal with. Already under pressure from his own electoral base for his support of a war which half his 2020 voters now believe is genocidal, the widening crisis has drawn its first American blood, in a deployment at least partly undertaken for Israel’s benefit." Aris Roussinos, Unherd, Sunday, 28 January 2024
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