Quote Originally Posted by JamesWales View Post
I do wonder what Israel's end goal is here. I have no time for the Palestine flag waving crowd, I think Hamas's slaughter last week was an utter atrocity from which Israel has a right to respond to.

But they know they can't simply bomb the place away, don't they? I assume it's an attempt to demonstrate punishment such that people turn their backs on Hamas. But how do they do that and demonstrate that?
They know they can't bomb the problem away but they are going to anyway