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had failed. We also hit nearly two dozen other Hamas

Ahmed Jabari. We’d gone after Jabari in the past but

we launched a targeted air strike on Hamas’s

to keep up enough pressure to secure the political arrangement we

which I was confident would help deal with the inevitable shower of Hamas

one aspect of the military balance in the south was now

bring down the number of rocket attacks to as near zero as

Hamas launched more than 100 rockets at towns in the south

while he and I had known each other for more than half-a-century

it’ll be bad. Very bad. But we’ll still be here. And we’ll find a way of

’ what’s our response: to fold up and go back to the diaspora? If Iran

” I told him. “You’re Prime Minister of the State of

as if we somehow on the brink of destruction.”

the biggest risk of all is being unable or unwilling to take

and actively trying to change the reality around us. But you

than take the galut out of the Jews.” Galut is Hebrew for

” I said. It was nonsensical to argue we were so threatened by

” it struck me as a betrayal of the core tenet of

with a military as effective as any in the world

President Clinton and now President Obama. In terms of Israeli