Goal of Gaza assault is not to topple Hamas: military (Extra)

Back-Pedalling on original Stated GoalsJan 2nd, 2009 - 08:48:07

This is a clear example of back-pedalling on the part of the Israeli Leadership: These people stood up on international television channels and said clearly that their aim was to de-capitate the Hamas leadership, to uproot Hamas and variations on the 'total annhilation' theme, now, three days later they've changed their story entirely: We're hearing variations on 'change the reality on the ground', 'convince hamas leadership to stop rocket attacks' and a host of other watered down variations of the original stated objectives.

It's clear that, just as in the 2006 Lebanon war, Israel's goals will drift, merely resulting in mindless massacres of civilians and a complete failure to achieve stated military/political goals.

In the meantime, a generation of more than half-a-million young gazans will will be imprinted with images of Israeli warplanes dropping bombs on their fathers and mothers and sibilings, a guarantee that 5, 10, 20 ,100 years from now Israel will still be fighting this war, possibly without the USA and EU to pump arms and cash into it's war-coffers.

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