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The difference is that the Israelis aren’t even calling the Gazan desert peace yet. They’re merely signalling that they’re getting ready to scale their high-intensity campaign down to something they’ll call surgical strikes. That, at least, is what Biden is hoping, after demanding an end to “indiscriminate” bombing for weeks. To be sure, Israel had not only the right but also the duty to destroy the military infrastructure of Hamas, after that group’s terrorist fighters attacked it on October 7 and wreaked violence with a singular sadism. And the US, as Israel’s best friend, was right to support Israel in...
