(Jerusalem Post) Editorial - Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrote an op-ed published Tuesday in The Atlantic, titled: "Hamas Must Go." She wrote: "A full ceasefire that leaves Hamas in power would be a mistake." A truce would give Hamas "a chance to rearm and perpetuate the cycle of violence.... Israel's policy since 2009 of containing rather than destroying Hamas has failed." "October 7 made clear that this bloody cycle must end, and that Hamas cannot be allowed to once again retrench, rearm, and launch new attacks. Hamas would claim that it had won and it would remain a key part of Iran's so-called axis of resistance. Ceasefires freeze conflicts rather than resolve them." Israel's opposition to a ceasefire and insistence that it be able to finish the job and destroy Hamas was most eloquently expressed by Yechiel Leiter, Netanyahu's former bureau chief, at the funeral on Sunday of his son, Moshe Leiter, who was killed in Gaza. Reading out a letter he had written to President Biden, Leiter said: "Stand back, Mr. President. Don't pressure us. Let us do what we know how to do, indeed what we must do, to defeat evil. This is a war of light against darkness, of truth against lies, of civility against murderous barbarism." We agree.
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