Why Netanyahu's endgame in Gaza sounds so far-fetched

Can Israel really demilitarize the Strip without making Hamas a partner?

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Until I heard CNN's weekend interview with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and watched Bloody Sunday unfold with scores of Palestinian civilian deaths and 13 Israeli soldiers killed, I thought I had the Gaza thing pretty much figured out. It would end — more or less — the way the two previous movies had concluded.

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