Netanyahu's government is plugging on through this expecting this punitive breed of warfare to cause a axe-bitten and battle-hardened popular insurgency, with an ethnic and religious basis nonetheless, to bend the knee when they effectively are already up against the wall with less and less to lose. Is he expecting to die in office? Hand off the burden to his more liberal party enemies when Likud is inevitably voted out? Canny political strategy but ultimately one that will only result in partisan and limited gain at the expense of the geopolitical safety of the Israeli people and the hard-earned reputation of the Jewish people worldwide

There is more talk coming from the United States and Europe about Palestinian reconstruction than there is from Israel. Who is going to foot the bill for this? Without reconstruction Hamas will just get more and more tenacious; they're making war-wombs out of the women over there now

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5531956&forum_id=2#47687134)