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The notion that the war would end if Hamas was overthrown or surrenders is as ahistorical as it is false.

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This Is Not a War Against Hamas

Jeremy Scahill

The notion that the war would end if Hamas was overthrown or surrenders is as ahistorical as it is false.
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