Israel may boast about its deterrent capabilities if it fought and beat regular Arab armed forces having an airforce,a navy,and army with artillery,infantry,armor,engineering corps and battlefield intelligence corps.You are hereby wrongly bragging about lethal,deadly deterrence against an organization of semi-regular combatants as much as against an entire population of unarmed civilians composed of women,children,old and young people. This is not fair fight at all. Just remember how HIZBULLAH pounded northern Israel incessantly for 34 full days in the summer 2006 war, and in the outcome appeared as the unquestionable victor who boldly challenged the IDF and beat it hard.Right ?

As long as Arabs are motivated to hate and kill as believers in the phony holy book and the phony prophet all "infidels are in danger" and all Arabs will be at war with anyone in their way, Israel must never give up or it will be destroyed.

As soon as you end operation they will start sending rockets you know this? You could not even stop Rocket rains during operation more than 600 rockets hit Israel Is this success or failure? If that is victory, wish you all the same kind victories in future!

WAR run by WEDNESDAY Israel Cabinet meetings. HAMAS and ISRAEL KNOWS ISRAEL will BUG OUT by Inauguration day of OBAMA! ONLY 400 of 20,000 HAMAS killed and NO HAMAS LEADERS KILLED! BOMBING TUNNELS THAT WILL BE REBUILT!

Now that they can se what selective targeting can do, maybe its time to give them a small dose of what reality may hold for them in an all out confrontation. It may be time to ramp it up one more notch, Hamas the cowards they are, may be hiding thier rockets and waiting until the heat is off.

And stop braggring about the power of deterrence. The real power of deterrence is a complete victory. COMPLETE!!!...

like al qaieda?...they are set back but not deterred-deterrance is for logical humans not terrorists no matterhow many times they are described merely as militants! iran is calling shots anyway

only complete Hamas surrender and return of Schalit is acceptable before we can declare deterrence restored Muslims of any persuasion, Antisemites, Israeli Leftists and Ottoman Genociders of Armenians and Kurds are not invited to reply

deterrence against AKs and RPGs? What would they do if faced with an army that had actually weapons to fight with... like Hezbollah?

Anachnu Itchem Tzahal!!! Keep Doing, bring us peace!!! Just Seek and destroy HAMAS!

Well - Israel HAS taken on and beaten Arab armies with all the implements of warfare, even when surprised during the holiest day in the Jewish calendar while everyone was fasting and praying. Yet - the Arabs had no problem boasting that they would slaughter hundreds of thousands of Jews and destroy Israel - surely, they aren't all IDF officers, are they? Next - Hamas themselves admit even police officers are trained in its terror brigades. Semi-regular forces? Is that because they don't wear a uniform and try to blend into civilian crowds...a war crime?? Hamas admitted they sent hundreds of fighters to train in Iran and Syria. Since Arabs have learned the lesson of meeting the IDF head-on, we now see the phenomenon of terror and using their own civilians as human shields. It just shows the reverse evolution of your ilk and Islam in general.

Israel is simply defending herself against genocide-seeking terrorists who both target Israeli children and hide behind Arab children -a double war crime. Still confused?

The blow sustained by Hamas so far is only a bloody nose - psychologically insufficient to cow it for any length of time, unfortunately. Israel must continue military operations or face the prospect of a much strngthened Hamas in prestige and in arms. It would be stupid and dangerous to accept a cease-fire now.

Why? Because we don't want Abass to come in the make it a state. That would be bad for Israel.Let it be till another time which will come. Watch the north border where the real power is lying in wait. Palistinian people have taken a good beating because of their own govenment.

No Shalit, no ceasefire. Its that easy. Flatten the whole darn "country" if needed. The international leaders should pressure them to release Shalit.

It is not clear how the Israeli leadership thinks that the “deterrent effect” of Israeli military has been restored. What they have fought is a totally one-sided war with Palestinians in Gaza. This territory is completely cutoff and the arms of Hamas are hardly a match for indiscriminate bombing of densely populated Gaza. This is both delusional and criminal. A well armed military can definitely provide a withering response just like Hezbollah did. Israel is always great at fighting against defenseless people. With the homicidal killing of 1000s in Gaza Israel has shown it can kill civilians at will just like they demonstrated in Lebanon in 2006. The long-term fate of Israel as a Zionist state is sealed. The enemies of both Jews and Arabs are the utterly reactionary and demented Zionists who have now reached a historic dead end. No amount of backslapping on the so called "achievement" in Gaza can do away with this unalterable historic fact.

The radical Islamists only understand complete victory, that means finishing the job in Gaza. Anything less will make the sacrifices of our brave men and women to be in vain.

Save the headache for Egypt, Abbas, Al Fatah and all those who want to impose a bogus "peace" on us with arch terrorists.

Keep going and get Haniyeh. He needs to learn a lesson.

Restoring what!!!! This op was like shooting fish in a barrel! "Hey guys over here, we got them in the corner!!"

do you mean when hizbullshit fires from civilian populations. gotcha.

will we see ham-ass destroyed. There is nothing wrong with killing palis. We have to stop being merciful and show them what it means to lose. Let it be an example to all our enemies.