"IDF Has Less Than A Week To Win"

thanx 2 jack's many posts of gaza-war links for this beauty, by mere rhetoric:

Diplomatic Pressure Means The IDF Has Less Than A Week To Win

"There's never any limit on how long Hamas can fire at Israeli civilians: at worst that produces only "concerns." But let Israel launch an operation that looks like it might be successful and the clock starts running:

The army believes the incursion into Gaza will do significant damage to Hamas' standing army and at the same time give Hamas leaders a palpable sense that their rule is in danger. The ground invasion will also accelerate the diplomatic stopwatch. A delegation from the European Union "troika" (Germany, France, Great Britain) will reach Gaza on Sunday, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy is expected on Monday. Translated into military terminology that means the IDF has less than a week to make genuine progress in Gaza."