Israel has announced that it is nearing its military goals in Gaza. Given that they seem to have accomplished nothing of military significance in their campaign - they have not destroyed Hamas, and the rockets they claim to want to stop (but in fact provoked with their invasion) are still falling - this raises the obvious question: what is Israel's goal?
At this stage, I can't help but notice that they've killed 900 Palestinians so far. Which makes me wonder: is a thousand dead all they're after? An object lesson written in civilian blood? Because their military spasm seems utterly pointless otherwise.
