Israeliska ledares åsikter om Gaza

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STEINITZ: MILITARY ACTION IN GAZA WOULD BE THE 'MAHMOUD ABBAS WAR'
If Israel is dragged into a military operation in the Gaza Strip amid ongoing clashes on the Israel-Gaza border, it should be called the “Mahmoud Abbas War,” Energy Minister and security cabinet member Yuval Steinitz said on Monday.

Speaking at the Ma’ariv Leaders Conference in Jerusalem, Steinitz reiterated his warning last year that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has a “strategic program to embroil Israel in a conflict in Gaza, and he wants to manipulate us into a conflict Israel is not interested in at a time that isn’t desirable.”

YOAV GALLANT ADVOCATES LONG-TERM CEASE-FIRE WITH HAMAS
Speaking from the Maariv Conference in Jerusalem, Gallant attacked those calling for going to war as persons who lack experience and do not really understand war or the limits of IDF power.

“We need to think ten times before going to war. People who do not understand war can be over-aggressive… We only go to war as the last option… But if we get to war, then we hit with extreme force,” he said.

LIBERMAN: GAZA CEASE-FIRE ONLY POSSIBLE AFTER 'HARSHEST BLOW' TO HAMAS
“In contrast to those who believe that an arrangement is possible with Hamas, I don’t believe there is any chance of this,” Liberman said.

Israel cannot agree to Hamas’s terms for such a cease-fire understanding, because those demands include the lifting of all Israeli restrictions on Gaza’s border, he said.

He clarified that he hasn’t given up on the possibility of a cease-fire understanding with Hamas, along the lines of what existed after the 2014 Gaza war.


But unlike those who believe if can be negotiated, he holds that Hamas “has to be dealt the harshest blow we know to deliver, even if that means a comprehensive confrontation. We have to deliver a painful blow,” he said.