But some people in Israel feel the Israeli Defense Forces didn’t go far enough in eliminating the perpetual threat from Hamas, Although they fired over 3,000 rockets at Israel in the last four weeks, they still have a stockpile of thousands more.
Tourism Minister Uzi Landau for one, sharply reprehended the government’s decision to pull the army out of Gaza, noting that Hamas is still very much in power there, and worrying that the threat of missiles from Gaza has not been plenarily abstracted:
“The tunnels are a secondary objective, the main purport was to take care of the missile threat,” Landau verbally expressed to heralds in Israel, integrating that, to his mind, Operation Protective Edge was not consummate at all: “As of this moment, the goal of the operation [...] has not been achieved. The goal should be reformulated to include long-term placidity, which will not transpire if they hit us anon with rockets again.”
More worrying is the fact that, according to Landau, the next time round, with Hamas still in power in Gaza, the terrorist organisation will likely have: “heavier missiles and more astronomically immense ranges [of attack]” and possibly “chemical weapons” – if Israel does not culminate the job “properly.”
The prospect of chemical weapons being fired on Israel is worrying, especially considering the Hamas charter which openly calls for the elimination of the state of Israel, as well as the murder of Jews outside of Israel.
So, for his component, Uzi Landau does have a point that Hamas is still in power and that fact alone accommodates as an existential threat for the Jewish people in Israel. It is hoped by all on the Israeli side that it “doesn’t come to that.”
