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Bret Stephens
By Bret Stephens
Opinion Columnist
On Saturday, President Biden warned that Benjamin Netanyahu’s strategy in the Gaza war “hurts Israel more than it helps Israel. “The Israeli prime minister responded the next day that Biden “is wrong. “Its main pillar of life: the army and diplomatic support.
I argued that Israel still had no choice to destroy Hamas as an effective fighting force. Here, I believe in a verbal exchange with an intelligent critic from this point of view.
Thousands of Gazan civilians, including many children, have been killed or bombed inside or outside their homes. Today they are facing a humanitarian disaster in the form of shortages of medicine and food, and even famine.
How can you justify it?
Like all wars, this one is horrific and heartbreaking. But I blame Hamas, Israel, for the devastation.
Listen, Hamas is a terrorist organization whose leaders will be brought to justice for the October 7 massacres. But it was not Hamas bombs, rockets or artillery that razed Gaza to the ground. It was those of Israel.
Droite. Et Hamas, which is at war, could put an end to this hail of fire as early as tomorrow. He rejected a six-week ceasefire that would have halted the fighting and allowed for much more aid in exchange for the release of about 40 of the 100 remaining Israeli hostages. It may simply impede the struggle for intelligence simply by surpassing itself.
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