[Wall Street Journal] Interview with U.S. National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley - It's interesting how much of the international community understands that while we all want to have a return to a cease-fire, it needs to be a different kind of cease-fire - one that is enduring and that would be respected. If we achieve that cease-fire - and at some point we will - I think it will be clear to everyone that Hamas continues not to serve the interest of the Palestinian people of Gaza, but continues to bring them misery and violence. And I think that is probably a good lesson for the Palestinian people to see. Hamas has got to stop launching rockets into Israel. And there has to be some way of giving reassurance to Israel that the smuggling of arms, largely through the tunnels from Egypt into Gaza, will stop, because we can't have a situation where there is a cease-fire, but arms continue to flow in to replace the rockets that have been expended, because that's a prescription for resumption of hostilities at some point in the future.
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