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Friday, July 18, 2014

Gaza and Israel: The Road to War, Paved by the West

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/18/opinion/gaza-and-israel-the-road-to-war-paved-by-the-west.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0

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How the West Chose War in Gaza

Gaza and Israel: The Road to War, Paved by the West

By NATHAN THRALL
JULY 17, 2014
JERUSALEM — AS Hamas fires rockets at Israeli cities and Israel follows up its extensive airstrikes with a ground operation in the Gaza Strip, the most immediate cause of this latest war has been ignored: Israel and much of the international community placed a prohibitive set of obstacles in the way of the Palestinian “national consensus” government that was formed in early June.

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