No Right Turn speculates on Israel’s real military goal:
Israel has announced that it is nearing its military goals in Gaza. Given that they seem to have accomplished nothing of military significance in their campaign — they have not destroyed Hamas, and the rockets they claim to want to stop (but in fact provoked with their invasion) are still falling — this raises the obvious question: what is Israel’s goal?
At this stage, I can’t help but notice that they’ve killed 900 Palestinians so far. Which makes me wonder: is a thousand dead all they’re after? An object lesson written in civilian blood? Because their military spasm seems utterly pointless otherwise.
Along with the Zionist dehumanisation of Palestinians it would help to explain why Israeli troops herded 110 civilians into a house under the guise of their own safety before shelling it and killing 30 of them.
The body of a girl who was found in the rubble of her destroyed house following an Israeli air strike on a house in Zeitoun Photograph: Mohammed Abed