Only Way To Stop the Rockets is Invade and Occupy Gaza
So far I have heard dozens of media suppositions of what Israel’s objectives in the Gaza war are/should be/were etc. The truth is there should be one objective, to destroy Hamas’ ability to fire rockets into Israel. There is one way and one way only to achieve this goal,take over the places where the rockets are launched from. In other words, RETAKE GAZA.
Pundits shiver at the prospect of ground forces entering the Gaza Strip. What makes it worse is that in 2005, Israel “left Gaza forever.” But there has never been a nation in history that defeating an enemy without invading their territory. Israel may not like it, but that is how wars have always been won, and if Hamas is going to be defeated and those rockets are to be stopped from landing on Israeli civilians that is what they will have to do: