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Not Aiming to End Hamas Rule... Yet
[Jerusalem Post] David Horovitz - What's at stake in the current escalated conflict between Hamas-controlled Gaza and Israel is the issue of operational freedom: Hamas' operational freedom to inexorably build up its strength and move on to take over the West Bank and ultimately defeat Israel... and Israel's operational freedom to stop it. Maj.-Gen. (res.) Amos Gilad, the head of the Defense Ministry's Diplomatic-Security Bureau, made plain Sunday that it is unthinkable for Israel to be deterred from acting to thwart terror attacks from Gaza because of a fear of Hamas rockets. The message Israel has been attempting to convey to Hamas, he said, is "Actually, we can stop you. And if you don't put a halt to the rocket attacks, you could lose your control of Gaza." At present, Gilad made clear, Israel is not embarked upon a military operation designed to end Hamas' reign over Gaza. For now, the IDF is acting specifically to halt the rocket fire.