"Mission Accomplished".

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Second, might want to quantify - I doubt Israel wants to kill off all the Palestinians... but that it DOES want to destroy them as a people. Liquidation of the concept of "Palestinian" rather than of the individuals themselves.

Gaza conflict: Hamas chooses to let children die for its own crazy ends

" The main argument presented by Israel's critics can be summarised in a single sentence: Not enough of your children are dying.

I refuse to apologise for that, but I urge you to remember that while our children may not be dying, it is not for Hamas’s lack of trying.

Since the beginning of the last round of fighting, thousands of rockets have been launched at Israeli cities, armed terrorists have attempted to execute mass attacks in villages by the border and hundreds of mortars have been aimed at kindergartens and schools. The only reason these attempts at mass killing are not making an impression is that Hamas has failed. The Israeli Defence Forces’ land and air operation, along with Iron Dome, the anti-missile defence system developed by Israel, prevented us from gaining the world’s sympathy in return for images of mutilated Jewish children. Given a choice between sympathetic news coverage and the lives of our children, I choose life.

Hamas chooses otherwise.

Western eyes and ears consider it a dubious choice, but Hamas never hid its position on the matter: it has no problem with Palestinian children dying, so long as it serves its political objectives. "

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/10987095/Gaza-conflict-Hamas-chooses-to-let-children-die-for-its-own-crazy-ends.html

Regarding the diplomatic stalemate in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Lapid said that "Most of the blame belongs to the Palestinian side, and I am not sure that they as a people are ready to make peace with us."[25] He has, however, dismissed as unrealistic the possibility of a comprehensive peace deal with the Palestinians.[26]

In a May 19, 2013 interview with New York Times correspondent Jodi Rudoren,[27] Lapid said that:

".. Israel should not change its policy on Israeli settlements in the West Bank in order to revive the stalemated peace process"
"..Jerusalem should not serve as the capital of a future Palestinian state"
"..he would not stop the so-called “natural expansion” of settlements in the West Bank, nor curtail the financial incentives offered Israelis to move there"
"..the large swaths of land known as East Jerusalem that Israel captured from Jordan in the 1967 war and later annexed must stay Israeli because “we didn’t come here for nothing.”"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yair_Lapid

congratulations. just when it seems the world might sit up and take notice, that is when they stop.
But "truce" fools a lot of people.
Even someone who demonstrated with me, says, "No need for more demos now that there is peace."
wtf?
I was watching Euronews and seeing the bombed out craters drove me to look up images of Dresden. I was thinking, "It's as bad as Dresden."
Wrong. It's worse. In Dresden you can see structures recognizable as houses.
In bombed areas of Palestine, there is nothing recognizable as once being a human habitation. Of course, as human habitation, there wasn't much that was structurally sound to begin with.

And what about the wounded - no medicine.
And no electricity, no water.

The trouble is - this keeps being repeated - while the bombs fall, people talk about Palestine. The bombs stop, and (most) people move on to the next disaster.

Israel knows this.