Michael Oren: “Israel now is in a state of shock. It's in a state of mourning.”

If the United States gets behind this effort to stop both of these extremisms together with Israel, there are tremendous opportunities here.

Now it’s the first time that I’ve seen in history when we have the opportunity to make the strategy the strategy. It’s not a tactic.

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.

Hamas knows once it released the last 10 hostages, then Israel can then go into those tunnels, flood them with water, flood them with whatever flammable substance that we can find, and that will be the end of Hamas.