Michael Oren: “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…”

They've broken every ceasefire in the past. They've never kept a ceasefire. So it's very difficult to negotiate with someone who's, like, moving that football constantly.

I think that any effort to release hostages is good. But at the end of the day, Israel was going to have to take the measures to defend itself.

If you put pressure on Hamas -- notice the Hamas wasn't willing to negotiate at all before Israel went out on the ground.

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.