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The Only Thing Worse Than Going to War Is Not Winning a War
(Ha'aretz) Aluf Benn - As I took a peek at Sky News before perusing the headlines in the British newspapers on the war in Libya, I felt as if I were watching Israeli Television's Channel 2 during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza in 2009. The British reporters proclaimed that "our pilots" had gone to battle, Gaddafi's air defenses had been "neutralized," and the enemy had resorted to using civilians as "human shields." For an Israeli listening to these statements, it's easy to get angry over the West's attitude toward the war, particularly British hypocrisy. While the British mount legal battles against Israeli leaders and IDF commanders over the bombardments of Gaza, they boast about their own bombings of Tripoli. The justness of a war is in the eye of the beholder, and it depends on its final outcome.