Stardate 20010912.0654 (On Screen): The big winner in this tragedy is Israel, ironically. Israel's position in the mid-east is now substantially strengthened. All the efforts by the Palestinian terrorists to make Israeli retaliations look brutal have been torpedoed. Today Israel attacked another Palestinian town and killed seven people in it. Last week this would have inspired world-wide horror and calls for Israel to knock it the fuck off. Today it's going to get hardly a notice by world leaders, who are suddenly much more sympathetic with military responses by a country which is the target of a terrorist campaign.
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