Michael Oren: “There's no alternative to direct talks.”

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.

A ceasefire means Hamas wins. As simple as that.

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.

And if we restore Hamas rule in Gaza, the whole process is just going to start again.