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Playing With Fire

What Israelis Know

Bernard Avishai on how Israelis know to avoid a ground war.

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The Gaza war, if that's the word for it, has reduced Israelis living more than 40 kilometers from the Gaza border to spectators of a kind of reality TV show: familiar contestants but no clear plot; the definition-of-victory provided by IDF generals, or pundits who were IDF generals, speaking earnestly...

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