<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6a174412-1409-4100-890a-0d6ef18ba33d/D8D4E9A5-014A-4AA2-A25B-12A728000391/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/01/06/andre-glucksmann-on-proportionality-in-gaza/" href="http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/01/06/andre-glucksmann-on-proportionality-in-gaza/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.hurryupharry.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/01/06/andre-glucksmann-on-proportionality-in-gaza/">Given that Hamas, unlike the Palestinian Authority, persists in refusing to respect Israel’s right to exist and dreams of annihilating its citizens, do we want Israel to imitate this radicalism and proceed to carry out a gigantic ethnic cleansing? Do we really want Israel to “respond proportionately” to the exterminationist desires of Hamas?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/01/06/andre-glucksmann-on-proportionality-in-gaza/">All conflicts, whether they be latent or on the boil are disproportionate by nature. If the adversaries were able to reach an agreement on the means to be employed and the ends to be pursued they would cease to be adversaries. Where there is a conflict there is a lack of understanding and each side tries to make the best of its own advantages and exploit the weaknesses of the other. Neither side renounces the right to do this. While the IDF “takes advantage” of its technical superiority, Hamas uses the population of Gaza as a human shield and has no time for the moral scruples or diplomatic obligations of its enemy.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D8D4E9A5-014A-4AA2-A25B-12A728000391/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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