Aims of Israeli terrorism

"Clearly, the aim of the bombardment of Gaza wasn’t to extirpate this population. But it was intended to pound them, and all other Palestinians, into submission, to make them give up their call for self-determination and justice. It was intended to extirpate them in a symbolic sense -- a kind of politicide, to use the term coined by the Israeli sociologist Baruch Kimmerling. And on this score, too, Israel failed. The Palestinian people have never been more united, and never been more determined in their threefold demand: That Israel end its occupation of Palestinian land; that it end its repression of its Palestinian minority; and that it end its denial of the moral and legal right of return for those Palestinians who were removed from their homes in 1948." (thanks Maryam)