From Hebrew Press

Yediot Ahronot recommends that those who decided upon the ground operation take into account the following: "A. There is not, there never was and there never will be a war that ends all wars.  A week, month or a year after we decisively beat Hamas, it will return to its starting point.  B. Our enemy, in this case Hamas, has endless human resources and an arsenal that is almost impossible to deplete.  C. After every war – and this is a fact! – The enemy rearms with much newer weapons than it previously had, learns well the mistakes of the previous war, and tries – and also succeeds – to improve."

Ma'ariv notes that, "This morning Israel will awake to an atmosphere of war.  War has a price.  When a war is just, one must know to pay that price.  There is no war more just than Israel's war against Hamas…We are returning to Gaza.  Not in order to stay there.  We are returning to Gaza in order to stay alive.  Just as Nasrallah did not believe that Israel would not react as it did in July 2006, so this time Hamas did not believe that Israel would make a move like this on the eve of elections.  And so we did."

Yisrael Hayom argues that, "In the past days many reasons have been given for and against the ground attack.  But it would seem that the reason that made the decision was taken from the areas of symbolism and psychology: Israel's avoidance of a ground confrontation would have been perceived – by them and by us – as a Hamas victory, which we cannot afford to allow ourselves."