Middle East
Having to Rebuild Gaza, Again
An astonishing editorial. The underlying assumptions are that i) Israel's devastating reprisal raids are the Palestinians own fault, ii) Israel has no choice but to inflict crippling damage to Palestinian infrastructure during its raids (the article doesn't mention all the helpless Palestinians killed and maimed, but we're talking infrastructure here), and iii) if Palestinians would just stop reacting to Israeli assassinations and mass arrests, Israel would stop pushing Palestinians off their land in order to build new settlements ("ethnic cleansing" anywhere else in the world) and begin good-faith negotiations on a two-state solution.