Israel’s extermination of a Palestinian family picnicking on the beach in June has touched off a growing regional conflict as Hamas and Hezbollah launched indiscriminate retaliatory attacks and detentions against the Jewish state. Israel has now unleashed a broad “collective punishment” campaign against critical infrastructure in Gaza as well as Lebanon, targeting civilian electric power stations, bridges, airport runways, and apartment blocks suspected of sheltering resistance fighters.
Some observers of the campaign of collective punishment see only tit-for-tat responses to terrorist acts. Others believe Israel is now implementing the final stages of the 1996 neoconservative “Clean Break” plan authored by key Bush administration officials and former heads of Likud.
2003 Research Report : “Clean Break or Dirty War?“
Q&A: Under Cover of Conflict: Al-Aqsa Mosque also at Risk?
Essay: “No, this is not ‘Our’ War“