"We have the right to demand anything we like from the world. As Jews we do not owe anything to anybody, while the rest of the world owes us a great deal"
[Ariel Sharon, speech to foreign Jewish delegates meeting of Gush Etzion, 1990s]
Strikes at population targets (per se) are likely not only to create a counter-productive wave of revulsion abroad and at home, but greatly to increase the risk of enlarging the war with China and the Soviet Union. Destruction of locks and dams, however - if handled right - might offer promise. It should be studied. Such destruction does not kill or drown people. By shallow-flooding the rice, it leads after time to widespread starvation (more than a million) unless food is provided - which we could offer to do 'at the conference table'.
