no one really wants to have to control gaza with its constant violent citizenry. So we take yaalon at his word and we'll see how the future unfold. Bibi just appeared weak constantly seeking ceasefires and making concessions. We'll see. Now as for isil and the other terror groups in the golan and elsewhere, israel may have to fight them. But forget about the kid glove treatment and fear of the hague. They have to be fought and destroyed using idf and israel's full might, like the russians fought the nazis. Don't fool around with the niceties that lawyers forced on the idf in gaza. Quaeda and nusra have to be wiped off the map just as obama called them a cancer. I am relying on yaalon to savagely fight them with the view to removing them totally, not a truce but no one left. Get the point and don't fool around.

I would like to say that in French we say : "on ne fait pas d'omelette sans casser les oeufs" you cannot make an omelette without breaking the eggs. This is not Stalin's. it s just common sense. Why did you want them make feel bad with that common sense saying he said. I am sure Staline did not invent it. And I am adding : "la guerre n'est jamais belle" (war is never beautiful). Lia

If Israel wants to defeat Hamas, it will. If Israel wants to keep Hamas around for clown punching, it will. It's all good. Very very good.

I admire Mr Barnea, but on this subject I am disappointed. To compair Bibi to Hanya is an insult to the IDF and to the IDF soldiers who perished in this conflict.The international pressure on Netanyahu to bring to an end the killing and the distraction in Gaza was enormouse.Bibi would have loved to destroy Hasas but the world will not allow him to do so, Abe

Israel stands strong today thanks to her brave IDF/IAF soldiers! KOL HA KAVOD! Maybe U.S. "leadership" will bring this lesson to our southern border.