(Israel Hayom) Amb. Dror Eydar - Complete victory over Hamas in Gaza is a categorical existential imperative. It must resonate among our haters and enemies lest they consider executing a similar massacre in the future. From this perspective, there is no choice but to eliminate Hamas as a military force. Our enemies cry out "genocide" because they know that the lie will be accepted in the West, especially among diehard critics of Israel and even more so among antisemites. (What kind of genocide is it when the Arab population between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River grows from year to year?) The fantasy that at the end of the war we will present Gaza on a silver platter to the Palestinian Authority means that the massacre has paid off. Sinwar and his gang will be portrayed as having paved the way for the unification of the PA and Gaza, on the way to a Palestinian state. Israel's disengagement from Gaza in 2005 was an attempt to implement a "two-state solution." Israel withdrew down to the last inch and the result was that Gaza became the biggest terrorist fortress ever erected. Shortly after the disengagement got underway, the idea was raised of a similar plan in Judea and Samaria that would have seen a unilateral withdrawal from most of the territory. Had this plan materialized, everything we experienced with Gaza would have paled in comparison to what would have happened from the hills of Judea and Samaria, hundreds of meters above Israel's large population centers. The writer is a former Israeli Ambassador to Italy.
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