Failure in Gaza

Israeli-Palestinian conflict has long ago become a shouting match over moral superiority. With 70 Israelis and more than two thousand Palestinians, most of them civilians, dead, the latest round of violence in Gaza, too, is being analyzed and discussed mostly on ethical grounds. But as fighting goes on, moral condemnation will likely do little to prevent the next round. Understanding how people got to this point--and, more importantly, how they can move beyond it--calls for an examination of the political events that led up to the operation and the political context in which it took place. Here, Sharon examines the failure in Gaza.