Horovitz on the 'terrible cost of thwarting Hamas'

Earlier Wednesday, ToI’s editor David Horovitz posted a long op-ed on the mood of Israel — which he described as “a mixture of anguish at the toll of IDF dead, anger at aspects of the international response, and confidence in the troops and (atypically) the political leadership.”

David Horovitz (photo credit: ToI staff)

He also noted: “Israelis don’t doubt that the army can prevail in Gaza — to degrade Hamas’s capacity to harm us in the near term, maybe even the medium term. If the ground offensive proceeds for another week or two — the government and the generals say, and most Israelis believe — Hamas’s fighting force, its tunnels, its rocket capabilities will be devastated. At a terrible cost. And with nothing to prevent Hamas’s prompt revival.”

The full piece is here.