P F Tinmore
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Success in Gaza would have been under one of the two.
1. hurting Hamas in a way that will shock the terrorist organization to its core
2. Freeding Gilad Shalit from captivity without releasing any terrorists from jail.
The second was not accomplished, but the first sure did. Hamas never saw it coming, and suffered great loses.
The Cast Lead operation was much more successful because we have learned from past mistakes (2006) and knew what our main goal was and how we plan to make it happen.
After Cast Lead, we have long days of quiet (compared to previous to the operation when the south suffered rockets non stop).
It would have been alot better, though, if the IDF would have succeded doing so without harming civilians. But sadly, civilians were hurt there, as well.
It is true that Israel flopped consistently in freeing Shalit without paying the price.
The truce before cast lead was holding up quite well even though Israel reneged constantly. Another truce was offered to Israel days before cast lead but Israel refused it.
That said, Israel killed about 1400 Palestinians and only a few hundred were militants. Israel destroyed massive amounts of infrastructure and almost all of it was civilian.
Israel barely made a dent in the militant's capabilities. They can still fire all the rockets they want but it is not in their strategic interest to do so. Just like they stopped suicide bombing years ago because it was not in their strategic interest to do so.
Israel has never been serious about a truce. That is why you people get rockets. You should push Israel for a truce.
It's of course easy for the Palestinian terrorists to hide behind civilians.
That is what the propaganda always says.