ANALYSIS: Beit Hanun is the Palestinian Kfar Kana

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"For months, GOC Southern Command Yoav Galant has been laboring to persuade everyone - government, public and media - that Gaza's IDF is not Lebanon's IDF. Then came the botched shelling in Beit Hanun on Wednesday, proving once again that it's still the same army, making the same mistakes, with the same disregard for enemy civilians.

By sheer coincidence, the artillery battery that erroneously killed 19 civilians in Beit Hanun, belongs to the battalion that killed 100 Lebanese civilians in the first Kfar Kana massacre. That was the hitch that stopped Operation Grapes of Wrath in April 1996.

Beit Hanun is the Palestinian Kfar Kana. What happens now depends to a large extent on the other side's reaction, which, according to all signs, is bound to be harsh and violent.

Hamas' political bureau chief Khaled Meshal on Wednesday summed up Palestinian strategy for the coming months in one sentence: "Blood will not turn into water," an Arabic proverb threatening revenge."

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