Gaza and Hamas: Now What?
So long as terrorists rule, violence can be reduced but not prevented.
May 17, 2018
Gaza and Hamas: Now What?
So long as terrorists rule, violence can be reduced but not prevented.
Having failed to achieve its goals through unceasing rocket attacks on Israel, Hamas, which seized control of Gaza in 2007, proceeded to concentrate its efforts on creating a network of attack tunnels. In 2014’s Operation Protective Edge and subsequently, the IDF has succeeded in systematically destroying these tunnels—an achievement that most likely spurred Hamas to take up its current tactic of mass protests at the security fence combined with attempted infiltration. Now that it has defeated this effort as well, Elliott Abrams asks what Israel should do next.
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