Hamas' zero-sum game

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Author(s)	Fania Oz-Salzberger
Source	San Francisco Chronicle
Date	January 5, 2009
URL	http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/05/EDHQ152S36.DTL
Quote	"Of course, civilians have always been in the line of fire and conquest, from Troy to Berlin. But no regime has ever used its citizens so deliberately as tools to arouse world sympathy, as hostages to modern sensitivities. While theories of just war instruct us not to hurt noncombatants, Hamas and its military arm have made a conscious decision, banking on global humanitarian concerns, to ensure that Israel hits as many civilians as possible."

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This item argues for the position Israel was right to attack Gaza on the topic Gaza War.