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Israeli Security Control of Gaza Is an Existential Necessity

(JNS) Yaakov Lappin - The murder of 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023, stands as an unbearable reminder of the consequences of allowing a genocidal, jihadist army to entrench itself on Israel's border. Israel can never again allow Gaza to be a staging ground for an Iranian-backed terrorist army. No one on Israel's borders can be allowed to build an ability to send death squads and invasion brigades over the border in an organized manner. Ensuring Israeli security control over Gaza is the only way to achieve this. This work cannot be outsourced to anyone; the idea that a foreign force or paid mercenaries would have the ability to deal with Hamas is absurd. Israeli security control of Gaza is an existential imperative. The idea that Israel could stay back behind the border was fueled by deluded concepts of Hamas being deterred, that it was a rational actor, and that it sought economic prosperity. These delusions stemmed from an inability to grasp the jihadist mindset of a fundamentalist Islamic death cult, and from a tendency to project Western thinking onto our enemies. No international diplomacy or security guarantees can obviate the necessity of full Israeli freedom of operation in Gaza for the foreseeable future. The writer is a research associate at the Alma Research and Education Center and the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University.
2025-02-25 00:00:00
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