AT contributor Dan Gordon, a captain in the Israel Defense Force reserves as well as a screenwriter, sends us a letter that is worth citing in its entirety on the current fighting in Gaza: I have been an Israeli soldier for over forty years, and never in that time have I ever seen a war that Israel wanted less, nor did more to avoid Never. At every stage of the current conflict, the government of Israel has given Hamas a chance to not just exit the conflict, but do so with it’s dignity, and honor, if a terrorist army can be said to possess such a commodity, in tact. And at absolutely every stage Hamas has answered unequivocally , and in a manner which could not possibly be misunderstood, that this war was theirs They wanted it. They created it. They owned it. Israel tried to create, at every turn, the beginning of a cycle of peace. Hamas, at every turn, chose to perpetuate a cycle of death. Were it not for Israel’s Iron Dome anti missile system,...(Read Full Post)