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Source: http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=18131
Defense Minister Mofaz: New "Rules of the Game"
(Cabinet Secretariat/IMRA) - At the weekly Cabinet meeting on Monday, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said the Hamas attack in Jerusalem, in which 21 people were murdered, had opened a new and different chapter for Israel in its relationship with the Palestinians. In response, the security establishment has adopted the following principles: An all-out war against Hamas and other terrorist elements, including continuous strikes at the organization's leaders. Increasing the pressure on foci of terror in Judea and Samaria. Freezing the diplomatic process with the PA and making it clear that Israel will neither return to it nor move it forward unless it sees that the PA is taking tangible steps to deal with the infrastructures of terror. Defense Minister Mofaz said that since the terror attack in Jerusalem, Israel cannot return to the previous "rules of the game." He asserted that the international community, along with the U.S., understands that there can be no going back to the rules of the hudna, but that an aggressive policy must be adopted against Hamas for the sake of future regional stability.