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Donald Macintyre's Tunnel Vision
Donald Macintyre looks at Gaza one year after the war in a special dispatch written for The New Statesman. One particular statement startles me, because Macintyre has been covering Israel for The Independent for several years. He writes:
The war was started with the stated purpose of ending the surge of rocket attacks on southern Israel by Gaza militants. These began when a ceasefire broke down, after an Israeli raid in November.
After discovering a 245 meter tunnel leading into Israel, which the Palestinians intended to use to kidnap IDF soldiers, the army launched an incursion to destroy the tunnel. Hamas responded with 35 Qassam rockets.
For those of us not afflicted with Macintyre's tunnel vision, the cease fire broke down when Hamas dug that tunnel.
UPDATE Dec. 30: The article was trimmed down, and this particular snippet isn't there anymore. Looks like I happened to get a peek at some content that wasn't intended to be published online; here's the note at the bottom of the page:
To read the full version of this piece, pick up a copy of this week's New Statesman, available in all good newsagents.
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If I am not mistaken Israel in carrying out their raid into Gaza in November 2008, six Palestinians who may well have been militants were killed. Prior to that for nearly 6 months barely a rocket had been fired from Gaza into Israel. After the tunnel incident the ceasefire broke down, intense rocket fire resumed and the rest is history.
Macintyre's interpretation would at the least seem argueable.
Posted by: stephen - London at Dec 31, 2009 12:16:21 PM
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