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Israeli #military: "We have been #instructed by the #political echelon to hit #Hamas hard.", " #frustration that was building in the army command for nearly a month", #Israeli "government had #known almost from the beginning that the boys were #dead. It maintained the fiction that it hoped to find them alive as a #pretext to dismantle #Hamas' West Bank operations." (from: How politics and lies triggered an unintended war in Gaza. Kidnap, crackdown, mutual missteps and a hail of rockets) http://forward.com/articles/201764/how-politics-and-lies-triggered-an-unintended-war/ (via @vegos on twister)