Guerra a Gaza 2009

On Thursday morning, New Year's Day, author Nir Baram got into an argument with an anchorman for the public station Channel l during the morning news. "We Israelis have to change our automatic mindset, which always says that military action will solve our problems," said Baram. The anchorman responded in the name of the national consensus: "And what about Hamas? I don't see them changing their mindset!" There's no question that the overwhelming majority of the Israeli public supports the government's decision to launch an aerial attack on Gaza, with the aim of "teaching Hamas a lesson." However, if a ground invasion is launched and Israeli casualties increase, public opinion will change. It's also clear that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's refrain that there was "no way of solving the problem of the Qassam rockets" was an inadequate answer to the dilemma created by Hamas rocket fire on Sderot and the other southern border towns and kibbutzim.