Israeli Army spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner has denied that the ongoing invasion of the Gaza Strip is intended to end with the ouster of the Hamas government, saying that is not at all the goal of the mission.
What is? That’s not so clear. The statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentions efforts to damage underground tunnels from the Gaza Strip into neighboring Israel and Egypt, though it mostly centers on retroactively justifying the invasion, as opposed to defining goals.
That’s largely because the various Gaza Wars, which erupt between Israel and Hamas on a nearly annual basis, just sort of escalate organically, without much serious thought as to the endgame.
Israel’s security cabinet is eager to escalate even further, calling up more troops and planning to vote on more general escalations of the invasion. The political benefits of escalation right now are the primary focus among cabinet members, and goals, to the extent there will ever be any, will be worked out in the future.
The ultimate goal is “Greater Israel” (see http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6d/Gre… for a map) which will require the seizure and annexation of Gaza and the rest of Palestine. Perhaps “israel” has decided that the time for the annexation of Gaza has arrived and that will start with the ground invasion. Further ethnic cleansing will depopulate the area of Palestinians and give “israel” unfettered access to fossil fuel reserves off Gaza’s coast. Will the Palestinians be deported, exterminated, or both?
http://www.globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-z…
You are right: it is all political. The invasion shifts focus from yesterday's child murders and last week's beating of a Palestinian-American teen.
"…denied that the ongoing invasion of the Gaza Strip is intended to end with the ouster of the Hamas government…"
It's painfully obvious to even the casual observer that the intent is to inflict as much damage and suffering as they can on the Palestinian people. The Israelis warn the Gazans to flee but the borders are sealed. Then the Israelis fire into refugee camps and start to destroy Gaza city, block by block.
The Israelis rant about the Iranians wanting to wipe the Israelis from the face of the earth. But it is the Israelis who are actively doing the same to the Palestinians, who cannot run nor fight back against a major military power.
What the Israelis are doing is pure and simple evil. And there is nothing justifiable about any of what they are doing, despite what their spinmeisters sent to the American broadcasters could ever say. To coin an old phrase, the whole world is watching and they're starting to understand what is going on, regardless of what they are being told by the apologists in the media.
Stressing people out is a sport. Killing them is because they got in the way of their weapons. Stress kills a population just as easily as a bomb, but it simply takes a little longer. Meanwhile, Uncle Sam keeps sending money, and cheering Israel's "right" to protect itself, much like a great Dane has the right to mince a chihuahua for being a chihuahua.
Why on earth would Israel want to destroy Hamas. Israel needs an tangible local enemy to keep the Israeli population cowed in a state of fear. If Hamas didn't exist, Israel would have to invent it.
17 July a good day to eclipse Israeli aggression in Palestine by the loss of Flight MH17. Palestinian deaths in the Israeli campaign already exceed 250 plus over 1000 mutilated.
But then the lives of Palestinians do not equate with those of the Chosen Races of Israel and the USA.
Is it election season in Israel? Seems like Israeli politicians are trying to out-hawk each other just like ours do, and Gazan civilians are footing the bill.