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Source: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-863501
Israel Must Defeat Hamas via Strategic Erosion, Isolation
(Jerusalem Post) Peled Arbeli - Moshe Fuzaylov, a senior researcher at the Misgav Institute for National Security and a former senior Israel Security Agency official, told Maariv on Thursday: "The military history of eliminating guerrilla movements teaches a simple truth: whoever wants to subdue a sub-state organization must cut it off from the population, isolate it from supplies, and create a psychological rift between the leadership and the 'believers.' We have a rare opportunity to implement this now - without returning Gaza to Hamas." "Hamas relies on a frightened population, supply chains backed by international elements, and a religious faith it has managed to claim as messianic. As is known in the Islamic tradition, there is no obligation to fight when there is weakness of believers, and the good of the nation must be placed above the whims of a lost jihad. This message, if it reaches Gaza correctly, may be received not as surrender, but as religious permission for compromise."