Yehoshua mentions the trickery Israel excelled at in previous operations. Trickery is not needed now. Blunt ,sustained force is the only thing needed now. Does Bibi, the rest of the politicians and IDF leadership have the guts to do what has been needed for months? Perhaps for the short time, but I doubt for the long term.

The rockets will not target the trendy coffee shops in N. Tel Aviv. Who cares when it hits Ashdod, Sderot, and Beersheva. African economic immigrants in S. Tel Aviv who will not go home. See a pattern ? Can you figure it out.

the author presupposes that hamas will agree to anything less than holy war to destroy israel. that’s not what its charter says.

live in.
Anyone over 21 should have realized that.
Now it's too late, we've shown our (empty) hand to the Jihadists and no
matter how many symbolic bombardments of useless targets in Gaza we perform, they already KNOW!
Deterrence would've been 10-1000 dead in the firs days of ballooning/fence attacks, without empty verbal threats.

And to assume that the ONLY two people who really are privey to ALL THE FACTS are stupid is itself, stupid. Obviously something else is going on. Either, for some reason the really are SCARED OF SOMETHING or its part of a bigger deal.

The three insane policies of fleeing from our lands, concessions and restraint are the root cause of virtually ALL Israel's suffering. Israel needs to reverse all these policies. Retake ALL our lands we foolishly abandoned; including Gaza, our South Lebanon Security Zone and parts of Judea and Samaria ceded to the terrorist P.A. Reverse all our concessions to our mortal "Palestinian" foes and end the mad policy of restraint. Israel should exercise the same amount of restraint Russia or China uses on their foes.