Israel’s Gaza Dilemma Won’t Go Away
And it could threaten Jerusalem-Washington relations.
May 31, 2019
And it could threaten Jerusalem-Washington relations.
On Tuesday, incendiary balloons launched from the Gaza Strip started two forest fires. Over the past fifteen months, fires caused by balloons and other makeshift devices have destroyed thousands of acres of farms, forests, and wildlife reserves. This is but one sign of the intractable problem that the Jewish state faces from its southeastern border, as Jonathan Schanzer writes:
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