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In reply to the discussion: Israel vows to destroy Hamas tunnels [View all]regnaD kciN
(26,033 posts)Normally, you don't destroy tunnels by bombing schools, hospitals, and U.N. refugee centers for days on end.
If Israel had really wanted to destroy the tunnels, they could have easily accomplished that in half the time without anywhere near as many deaths of noncombatants.
But that isn't what Israel is about. With the West Bank "pacified" by splitting it into every smaller enclaves, walled off from each other and from the prime land reserved for Israeli settlers, Gaza was the last contiguous block of land held as any form of "Palestinian territory." Smash that, and Palestine will never be, can never be more than a set of disconnected reservations or bantustans, while Israel can claim all the land for itself. That's the real agenda here, and why the Likudniks seized on the murder of three Israelis by a rogue group on the West Bank to crush the people of Gaza under its bootheel.