Israel's mission in Gaza is not about security -- so what is it about?

[redgreenandblue]

(CNN) -- Let's be clear: Israel's latest operation in Gaza is not about security. Cease-fires between Hamas-ruled Gaza and Israel have brought security for months on end and there is ample evidence to show that Israel is largely responsible for truce breakdowns.

Israel decided to escalate the conflict last Wednesday with its assassination of Hamas leader Ahmed al-Ja'abari despite a truce that had been observed by all Palestinian factions during the previous two days.
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http://us.cnn.com/2012/11/20/opinion/israel-gaza-nadia-hijab/index.html?sr=sharebar_facebook

[Fozzledick]

1. This post is not about reality -- so what is it about?

[redgreenandblue]

8. If you think CNN is wrong here, perhaps you may want to email them.

[former9thward]

9. Stop with your BS

The author is a Palestinian media commentator. CNN is merely printing it has an op-ed piece. The piece is pure propaganda.

[Scootaloo]

2. Same thing OCL was about

Making an incumbent look like a hardass who's not afraid to kill a few Arabs to win a few votes

[DearAbby]

3. I donno, maybe

It was a test, see if their IRON DOME worked...who better to hit you with rockets in retaliation? Also a test for Egypt, would the side with Gaza? It appears so far they will stand by the 1979 agreement.

I also think it was a test for a bigger target...if one day they had to hit Iran.

[hack89]

4. It is about destroying as many long range rockets as possible

killing as many Hamas leaders as possible is icing on the cake.

[oswaldactedalone]

5. Replies # 3 and 4 are the correct answers.

Unfortunately, a number of Israeli citizens have been killed in the process. Tough luck for them I guess.

[HiPointDem]

6. especially since none had been killed by hamas rockets this year before netayahu

started 'pillar of bombs'.

ironic.

[former9thward]

11. So Israel should just wait until a bunch of people are killed by a lucky strike?

Hamas has been shooting rockets for weeks now. No government in the entire world would sit by and let up to a million of its citizens being sitting ducks to rocket fire. Except one you ran, I guess.

[HiPointDem]

12. 2001-2011 hamas rockets killed 29 israelis. israel killed over 100 palestinians just

in this latest sorty.

[former9thward]

14. Good thing you weren't CIC in WW II.

The minute we killed more Japanese than the U.S. personnel that died at Pearl Harbor you would said "OK, we're cool".

[HiPointDem]

15. good thing you're not minister in charge of analogies. fail.

[Odin2005]

7. Keeping the Pals terrorized.

The Israeli government does not want peace with the Pals, it wants them ethnically cleansed.

[Scurrilous]

10. Protecting the brand. n/t

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

13. Erect bogeyman, wave flag, start shooting, garner votes.

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” H.L. Mencken