(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Dr. Joel Fishman - American policymakers are pressing Israel to reduce the scope and intensity of its defensive war against Hamas. Israeli leaders fear that doing so will prevent a decisive outcome. How should Israel, the aggrieved party, respond to an attack of barbaric cruelty, and should others tell Israel how it must act? During the summer of 1945, President Harry Truman faced a similar challenge dealing with Imperial Japan. The writer, a fellow of the Jerusalem Center, is a historian and former editor of the Jewish Political Studies Review.
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