David Bernstein at the Volokh Conspiracy: More on Israeli Incompetence.
The problem is, in the absence of agreement within the government as to what the force is meant to accomplish, the government can’t announce under what circumstances it will cease to use force. So instead of setting out clear parameters, and saying, for example in 12/2008, “we regret the loss of life in Gaza, but if Hamas would do the following .... we will ceasefire immediately,” and thus try to put the onus on Hamas for the violence when it fails accede to what at least many would find to be reasonable Israeli demands, Israel instead just keeps shooting until either world opinion or popular exhaustion gets the better of it, and doesn’t achieve its goals.
In other words, they need a head of state.
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