Motives and Reality

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1139336.html

There. You know what this blog post is about. In an enlightened world you would immediately understand the title of this post and the news article's connection. Sadly, such an enlightened world does not and will never exist. So on with the blog.

Israel managed to conduct five attacks at one of the most densely populated places on Earth and managed to injure only five people. Israelis will say this is a retaliation for recent rocket attacks. Palestinians will say this is another act of violent aggression against the Arab peoples they claim to represent.

I say this was a message to stop the rocket attacks. If Israel wanted to inflict damage they have the capacity to strike quickly and deadly. They didn't. The Israelis used large explosives in one of the most populated places on Earth and hurt only five people in the process. That is a deliberate avoidance of casualties on Israel's part. The attack was deliberate. As was the Palestinian rocket attacks last week.

Yet now it is to see how this unfolds. If rockets continue to fall on Israel the war may be closer than anyone in America has even considered.