Brigades That Fire on Israel Are Showing a New Discipline
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/world/middleeast/brigades-that-fire-on-israel-show-a-deadly-new-discipline.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
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From: barry levine
Date: Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 8:39 AM
Subject: re: Brigades That Fire on Israel Are Showing a New Discipline
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
From: barry levine
Date: Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 8:39 AM
Subject: re: Brigades That Fire on Israel Are Showing a New Discipline
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
On June 20th, 1948 the Israeli Defense Forces shelled and sank a ship carrying arms to an independent Israeli militia. When the Altalena went down, Israel had a single military structure, to whom the people ceded a monopoly on force. At that point and only at that point, what had been a movement was a State.
In 2012, The Egyptian government may negotiate with the Qassem brigades over smuggling at Rafah , and Israel's government may hold talks with Hamas over ransoming prisoners. But until the people of Gaza have a single command to whom they cede a monopoly on force, they are doomed to a Hobbesian state of chaos.
Barry Haskell Levine
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