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I don’t know why they say things like “it will be over soon”. What does this suggest? It tells the enemy that they are almost free from attack and to just bunker down and bear it a while longer? I suppose they think it projects strength as in “we can mop them up in no time” but I think it also says “we will not finish everything we need to do”. I suppose there may be people in Israel - maybe the majority - who can’t stomach the sight of dead soldiers. Nobody could. But you can’t fight an antiseptic war either, so if you are going to do it you have to do it, I’m afraid. Its sad to see so many die. It is worse to see so many die and accomplish nothing in the process (as it increasingly looks like we will end up having done in Iraq, unfortunately, thanks to a hasty about face when Obama started making policy).

I’m not sure Israel knows what it wants, other than to stop the rockets and close the tunnels that enable the rocket fire. The world has been derelict in allowing Hamas to use its money and resources to make war. Israel may not want to remove Hamas. But I think this action will not deter Hamas in the future. Hamas is weird, with nothing to gain from all this, but almost nothing to lose either since they know Israel won’t wipe them out. Its just freaking bizarre.