Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, however, told Channel 10 that toppling Hamas is not on the agenda as a goal for Operation Pillar of Defense.

So, just their artillary?

I read the spookiest thing today that a reader sent in to Andrew Sullivan. Grain of salt of course, but this blew me away.

To start with, we can assume that the goal of Pillar of Defense is not to cripple Hamas’s war-making ability through military means.

The writer goes on from there to the history of Algeria, 1955, the FLN and what the decided to do in order to gain popular support.

Chilling

[EDIT] Link andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com

[EDIT 2] Please read down, past the ones you disagree with to see the Algeria email.