Worth logging past the paywall for this: Experimenting with the right mix of policies to achieve this is tricky: denial of another people’s freedom and rights is not an exact science. Mr Netanyahu has put in place perverse incentive structures in Gaza and the West Bank. In Gaza, Palestinian quiet is met by a continued Israeli siege; in the West Bank, co-operation is welcomed with more Israeli settlements. For Mr Netanyahu, this experiment has so far contained the conflict within parameters he deems acceptable – albeit at a terrible cost to the Palestinians, and further erosion of an Israeli democracy already riven with ultranationalist intolerance and prejudice. It is, of course, antisemitic propaganda by some pro-arab quisling who just wants to see all the Jews driven into the ocean etc, but if you can look past these obvious faults it does seem to, ah, match with the empirical observations, as they say.
Posted on: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 06:57:35 +0000
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