The security cabinet met Thursday night to discuss yet another expansion of the war in Gaza, another link in a long chain that will surely get its own name. The names change but the song remains the same: occupation, destruction and the forcible transfer of tens of thousands of Palestinians. Additional soldiers will be sacrificed on this altar, and the remaining Israeli hostages will be lost. The Netanyahu government has turned both groups into collateral damage.

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