[Marxism] "Can Israel Survive Its Attack on Gaza?" - Time Magazine

[Lueko Willms]

Interesting question posed by the USanian "Time Magazine" in the
title for an article published Thursday, January 8, 2009: 

> <http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1870314,00.html>

  Quotes: 

  "Israeli politicians and generals know that the total elimination
of Hamas' entrenched military command could take weeks; it might be
altogether impossible."
  ...

 "Just as ominous for many Israelis is a ticking demographic time
bomb: the likelihood that Arabs will vastly outnumber Jews in the
land stretching from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean is a
catastrophic prospect for a nation that defines itself by its faith.
At some point, Israelis will have to choose between living with an
independent Palestinian state or watching Jews become a minority in
their own land. "

  ...

  "The most immediate challenge facing Israel is that posed by Hamas.
Gaza's tragedy has for days been playing out on the world's TV sets.
By Jan. 7, more than 700 Palestinians, many of them noncombatants,
had been killed. But there's something tragic, too, in Israel's
predicament: in any confrontation with its enemies, it is damned if
it does and doomed if it doesn't.

The Gaza offensive has greatly weakened Israel's few Arab allies.
Moderate Arab countries that were edging closer to recognition of the
Jewish state are now recoiling from what they see as the slaughter of
fellow Arabs in Gaza. In Egypt, pro-Gaza protests turned into thinly
veiled attacks on President Hosni Mubarak's rule, which has helped
maintain the blockade of Gaza. The pressure may force Mubarak to
support a truce that entails opening the Egypt-Gaza border as Hamas
demands, but he is unlikely to soften his position on the Palestinian
group that maintains links with Egyptian Islamists as well as the
Iranian regime." 

  Read it in full, it is even fun to read, how these USanian
"patriots" begin to grasp the Catch-22 situation the zionist colonial
adventure is in, and their vain hopes of how to salvage it. 


Comradely yours, 


Lüko Willms 
Frankfurt/Main 
/ Lueko.Willms at T-Online.de