http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Yaalon-Palestinians-wont-get-a-state-only-autonomy-379052Ya’alon revealed to The Jerusalem Post’s Hebrew sister newspaper Ma’ariv Hashavua that, before Operation Protective Edge, the security cabinet evaluated the cost and benefit of entering Gaza, capturing it, and destroying Hamas. Every minister except Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman decided it would be wrong to do it at this stage.
“If we entered, there would be no one to replace us when we left. Not Abbas, the Egyptians, the Arab League, NATO, or the UN,” he said. “That meant entering without finishing the job or getting stuck there. Getting stuck there means a civil administration, military government, and all the responsibilities on us, including rebuilding Gaza.
The annual cost of governing Gaza would be some 10 billion shekels. Is that what we need to add to our state budget? Do we need our best forces to be in Gaza? Do we not have other challenges?” Ya’alon said destroying Hamas meant cleaning Gaza of tens of thousands of terrorists, unlike in Judea and Samaria, where he said there were several hundred terrorists and no heavy arms.
“If we decided to clean out Gaza, there would still be no cease-fire,” he said. “We would be fighting inside with our best forces while rockets would still be fired, our soldiers would unfortunately be killed, and eventually people would ask, now or in a year, who is the idiot who made that decision?” Regarding the tunnels that stretched from Gaza to Israeli communities, Ya’alon said the security cabinet knew neutralizing them would cost the lives of a number of soldiers but the ministers realized that there was no choice.
It's because the government does not have the same goals as JTF concerning how to solve the Moslem-Nazi problem and they do not act based on true Torah morality on how to conduct a war - there was no chance to really win the last war fought with Hamas.
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