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What's the most likely outcome of Israel's invasion of Gaza? A wider war? A Hamas defeat? Just more of the same?

Posted by David Ignatius and Lauren Keane | Your Thoughts

FROM THE PANEL

Israel's Gaza Gamble

What is all this death and destruction supposed to accomplish, from the Israeli perspective?

Mahmoud Sabit , |

109 COMMENTS
Jan 7, 2009 at 5:39 PM

Yossi Melman is a senior commentator for the Israeli daily Haaretz. He specializes in intelligence, security, terrorism and strategic issues. An author of seven books on these topics, his most recent book, The Nuclear Sphinx of Tehran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the State of Iran was published recently by Carroll & Graf.

Hamas Benefits From Palestinians' Misery

Yossi Melman , Tel Aviv, Israel |

62 COMMENTS
Jan 7, 2009 at 4:53 PM

Daoud Kuttab is a Palestinian journalist. He was born in Jerusalem in 1955. He is a former Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University in the United States. Mr. Kuttab is the former director of the Institute of Modern Media at Al Quds University in Ramallah, Palestine and the founder of AmmanNet, the Arab world's first internet radio station. His personal web page is www.daoudkuttab.com.

To Gaza's Victims, Politics Means Little

Daoud Kuttab , Jerusalem/Amman, Jordan |

35 COMMENTS
Jan 6, 2009 at 1:35 PM

Saul Singer is Editorial Page Editor and author of the weekly column “Interesting Times” for the Jerusalem Post. He is the author of Confronting Jihad: Israel's Struggle and the World After 9/11. Before moving to Israel from the Washington area in 1994, Mr. Singer served for ten years as an advisor on the personal and committee staffs of the United States Congress, including the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Senate Banking Committee, and Senator Connie Mack.