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Source: https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-845672
The IDF's Job in Gaza Is Not Over
(Jerusalem Post) Gil Troy - The Gaza war vindicated the military theorists who teach that in an age of total war with totally evil enemies, the only way to fight is to fight to win. Seeking a managed outcome, trying to keep the war in proportion, is an immoral position that only sounds virtuous. Once you go to war, fight full throttle - otherwise you risk your own troops, and drag out everyone's suffering. Israel may start fighting in Gaza again. This time, for everyone's sake, Israel should seize territory and hold it, crush Hamas unapologetically, and deprive Hamas of the humanitarian aid shipments the terrorists keep stealing. Such an assertion of power won't be pretty. But it will end the war - and the suffering - far faster than the on-again, off-again dithering that somehow has been cast as the right way to fight urban warfare against this evil enemy. Israel needs American support to do what it needs to do and what it should have done already. The writer, a Distinguished Scholar of North American History at McGill University, is a Senior Fellow in Zionist Thought at the Jewish People Policy Institute.