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Politics seems to clearly on some level at least be a game. If you don’t see that it’s a game then you’ll never understand what’s really happening. When politicians speak they don’t always say either exactly what they mean or they something without saying it. This is a lesson all in itself and could be it’s own post but I bring this up for a reason.  Earlier this week I speculated that Israel may go into Gaza and it’s main purpose would be to remove Hamas. Today on Fox News Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni responded to the question of weather or not they were going in to remove Hamas and she said “no, not at this time”. Just a few days earlier she said she wanted to remove Hamas, but she is not yet Prime Minister. The answer of not yet implies that a time either will come or it may come. The question is, if not now then when? They seem to be making this one of the biggest campaigns into Gaza in quite some time. Will they launch a bigger campaign later? I don’t think so. I see one of three possibilities, they could either be hoping this shakes Hamas up and straightens them out, which is unlikely, or they are planning to take them out at the end of this campaign but not now at the beginning or they are planning to make them so weak that Fatah will almost have to come in and take over. The leadership in Israel keeps saying they want to change the reality on the ground. If this doesn’t mean removing the Hamas government I can’t think of anything else that might change the reality on the ground except for Israel to remove absolutely every Hamas and government building and remove pretty much every rocket and all rocket making and firing material. This would seem to be very difficult without reoccupying the Gaza strip inch by inch and securing it. However Israel has also said they will not reoccupy Gaza. So although I hope it doesn’t, I think this operation is not likely to stop all of the rocket fire into Israel from Gaza.

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