If you believe Israelis' claim, Hamas has been firing rockets into their homeland, and thus endangering, injuring, and killing Israeli civilians for more than 6 months. Accordingly, the Israelis say they had to respond to the national security threat posed by the hostile regime in Gaza.
If Israel is telling the truth in their claim, then, in light of such a severe security danger, one can't help but ask, "Why did Israel wait that long to take action against Hamas?"
One plausible answer might be that the Israelis were reluctant to endure a repeat of the Lebanon debacle, where the elite military all but got its butt kicked by Hezbollah in 2006, probably because Israel sought to fight a politically correct war, according to some pundits.
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Wednesday, January 7, 2009
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