{"id":52542,"date":"2018-08-02T09:41:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T13:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=52542"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:56:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:56:00","slug":"armstrong-israel-gazas-risky-brinkmanship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/08\/armstrong-israel-gazas-risky-brinkmanship\/","title":{"rendered":"ARMSTRONG: Israel-Gaza\u2019s risky brinkmanship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, Associate Professor of Operations Research in\u00a0Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-armstrong-israel-commentary\/commentary-israel-gazas-risky-brinkmanship-idUSKBN1KM5I7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">piece recently published by Reuters<\/a>\u00a0about brinkmanship between Israel and Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>Relations between Israel and the\u00a0Gaza Strip\u00a0have become increasingly violent since the Palestinian \u201cGreat March of Return\u201d protests began in March. Since then, Palestinian authorities say that\u00a0157 Gazans have been killed\u00a0and thousands injured. The firepower employed by both parties has steadily escalated while purported truces have crumbled more quickly. The ceasefire announced\u00a0May 30\u00a0perhaps seemed promising, but those of\u00a0July 14\u00a0and\u00a0July 21\u00a0seemed like aspirations rather than expectations. After the last one, a senior U.N. official said another war had appeared\u00a0\u201cjust minutes away.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This skirmishing basically represents bargaining moves by Israel and Gaza over the terms of their relationship. But their demands regarding military security, economic activity, and prisoner exchanges\u00a0appear mutually incompatible. Each therefore is hoping brinkmanship will force the other to make concessions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Israeli and Gazan firepower escalations demonstrate this progression. Gaza militants began using\u00a0incendiary kites and balloons\u00a0to burn Israeli crops and forests in April. In May, they fired\u00a0188 rockets and mortar shells, the first significant barrage since 2014.\u00a0Explosives-laden balloons\u00a0joined the fire-carrying ones in June. July saw an estimated 200 rockets being\u00a0fired from the Gaza Strip\u00a0in one day and sniper fire killing the first\u00a0Israeli soldier\u00a0there in four years.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-armstrong-israel-commentary\/commentary-israel-gazas-risky-brinkmanship-idUSKBN1KM5I7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, Associate Professor of Operations Research in\u00a0Brock\u2019s Goodman School of Business, wrote a piece recently published by Reuters\u00a0about brinkmanship between Israel and Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,6],"tags":[594,4395,6887],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52546,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52542\/revisions\/52546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}