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Destroying Hamas’s governing and military systems will affirm Israel’s strategic asset value in the eyes of the US and other partners in the region. Despite international pressures, Israel must act decisively to achieve its war goals.
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The tectonic threat of Iran to Mideast and global stability must be countered head-on.
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This is a war over global and regional order, against the radical axis that seeks to annihilate Israel and weaken Western influence.
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Israel must resist America’s fantasy framework for a swift, dangerously indecisive, end to the Gaza war.
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Its leadership should be expelled from Qatar.
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America is undermining its own interests and sabotaging advancement of a regional architecture based on Saudi Arabia and the Abraham Accords countries.
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A lesson of the Purim tale: Israel cannot allow the world to emasculate it. Finishing off Hamas and maintaining long-term control of a security envelope including Judea, Samaria, and Gaza is an essential goal that justifies Israeli defiance of the world.
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Sending an Israeli delegation to present operational plans in Rafah would enhance Israeli subordination to the U.S. administration.
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Nobody can draft haredi Israeli Jews against their will – no matter what the Supreme Court rules or the Knesset legislates. But Ultra-Orthodox men could serve national or military service during their long semester breaks.
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The Biden administration has not internalized that for Israel, the defeat of Hamas is an existential issue. It is not like America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which were conducted thousands of miles away.