PM threatens action if truce fails

Jerusalem Post ^ | November 22, 2012 | YAAKOV LAPPIN

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PM: Israel is giving the cease-fire with Hamas a chance; Barak: Truce is not an agreement but a set of understandings between Israel and Egypt, Hamas and Egypt; IDF official: Hamas will be shocked by level of damage in Gaza.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that Israel is prepared to act if Hamas breaks the Egypt-mediated truce.

"The operation's goals were met," Netanyahu said. "I know there are citizens that expect a harsher stand in Gaza - and we are prepared to make one. We choose when to act, against who to act and how to act," Netanyahu added.

Barak clarified that the cease-fire was not an agreement with Hamas but rather a document of understandings between Israel and Egypt, and between Egypt and Hamas. A document detailing the understandings was published by Hamas in order to boast its achievements, he said.

"There is no agreement. I am holding the paper in my hands," Barak told Israel Radio. Quiet will be met by quiet, he explained.

The IDF believes that contrary to the triumphalist public stance of Hamas, the Gaza regime is privately shocked by the level of damage it sustained.

[Seizethecarp]

The Hamas survivors, like Hezbollah in 2006, emerge from the one-sided devastation of their former command and control infrastructure (and absent key leaders now dead) and declare "victory"...much like the armless and legless Black Knight in Monty Pythons "Search for the Holy Grail": "It's just a flesh-wound!"

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The Hamas survivors, like Hezbollah in 2006, emerge from the one-sided devastation of their former command and control infrastructure (and absent key leaders now dead) and declare "victory"...

The unions declared victory in the Hostees battle too.

[jdsteel]

Oh, to have a president that would speak with clarity and sense like that.