Let me be clear that on the ground campaign, you limit to a certain degree the amount of civilian casualties we're inflicting on the other side, even at the risk of incurring greater casualties on your side among your soldiers.
Michael Oren explains the Israeli military's strategy to minimize civilian casualties during operations.
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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.
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.
Terrorist organizations do not negotiate in good faith. They move the football. They will play with the emotions of Israelis. They'll torture Israelis. It's part of their terror. It's actually part of their strategy.
If the United States gets behind this effort to stop both of these extremisms together with Israel, there are tremendous opportunities here.