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Sunday, October 8, 2023
Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs: ‘The First Gaza War is planned to be the last one’
Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs tweets: “The First Gaza War is planned to be the last one as well!”
(Though there have been numerous brutal conflicts between Israel and the Strip, Fuchs appears to be signaling a different scale of battle, as Israel never before officially declared a state of war against Gaza as it has now.)
Fuchs relates his meeting with his late grandfather after the 9/11 attacks in 2001, in which the latter told him “If al-Qaeda managed to carry out such an attack, they’ll take over the world.”
“I calmed him and told him it was a wake-up call and that such terror would be defeated.”
למחרת ה-11 בספטמר, הגעתי לבקר את סבי ז"ל שהיה בן 96 ופעם ראשונה שהוא לא חייך, הרים את הראש מהעיתון ואמר לי (באנגלית): אם אל-קאעידה הצליחו להרים כזה פיגוע, הם ישתלטו על העולם!
ואני הרגעתי אותו ואמרתי לו שזו קריאת השכמה והטרור הזה יוכרע.
מלחמת עזה הראשונה, מתוכננת להיות גם האחרונה!— יוסי פוקס Yossi Fuchs (@YossiFuchs) October 8, 2023
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