The Israeli public opinion is running very high against providing this type of aid to the Palestinians. There is a deep feeling among the Israeli public that the Palestinian population in Gaza was highly supportive of Hamas.
Michael Oren discusses the challenges Israel faces regarding public opinion on providing aid to Palestinians.
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Israel has to, on one hand, defend itself, defend the country, restore its internal security because we have 250,000 people who can't go back to their homes.
It's existential for the state of Israel. It's not a matter of negotiation. It's something we have to end the threat, we just have to.
I think, we certainly should. We know where every bomb falls. This is a very organized army. We actually know where our artillery shell assaults. It's all written down. It's all computerized.
We're under the pressure from the pictures coming out of Gaza. We're under the pressure from our own party. Can you do your utmost? Could you open up these, you know, humanitarian corridors or humanitarian pauses to allow aid in and…