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Continued fighting cannot bring Israelis and Palestinians closer to long-term peace. There needs to be a concept of victory beyond military accomplishments read more “. . . a review of actual cases shows a whole category of wars in which the very idea of defeating the enemy [military] is unreal.” “. . .inability to carry on the struggle can, in practice, be replaced by two other grounds for making peace: the first is the improbability of victory; the second is its unacceptable cost.” – Clausewitz The latest iteration of violence in the Middle East was marked by the Hamas attack...