"Israel" Admits: Hamas Deterred Us, Our Leadership Weak

Local Editor

Echoes of "Israeli" humiliating defeat in Gaza pre-occupied "Israel".
Meanwhile, the criticism was particularly focused on the head of the Zionist cabinet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

"The bottom line is, not only did the government and the "Israeli" army not deter Hamas, Hamas deterred the government," said "Israeli" attorney Yoram Sheftel in his weekly column for "Arutz Sheva".

He further claimed that ""terrorist" organizations have no concept of deterrence until they are wiped out."
In response to the "Israeli" government pretexts of the absence of international support for a ground invasion for Gaza, Sheftel neglected all such claims. He further described them as absurd.
"Was there support for Military Shield ["Israeli" aggression on West bank in the second Intifada]? For the siege on Beirut?" he asked.
"Hamas is going to continue to arm itself and the situation will only get worse," he concluded. In parallel, he cautioned that the Palestinian resistance factions "will arm themselves with tens of thousands of rockets and they will decide when to fire on "Israel"."

In parallel, the writer slammed "Israel's" reliance on the Iron Dome.
"Even if 98 percent of the rockets were shot down, there would still be one and a half million "Israelis" sitting and trembling in fear in bomb shelters," he noted. "Even if all the rockets were shot down, there would still be a huge part of the "Israel" shut down... "Israel" cannot tolerate such a situation."

Similarly, the "Israeli" Rabbi Zev Karov told "Arutz Sheva" that "the "Israeli" government's approach would make matters worse."
"Every time you see that they can't stand up to outside pressure," he said of "Israel's" leaders. "It puts us back in the same situation over and over."

"What we had here wasn't a conclusion, just a break," he added.
He further denounced what he called ""Israel's" weakness and non-recognition of the justice of our cause."

Source: "Israeli" press, Edited by moqawama.org