Knesset defense committee chair: Retake Gaza

Voices are growing on the right to retake the Gaza Strip. Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman has suggested it. On Tuesday afternoon, Likud MK Ze’ev Elkin, chair of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, announced his own support for a full IDF takeover.

“Over the long term, there won’t be any escaping correcting the mistake we made,” Elkin told Channel 2 News. “The Islamist terror base [in Gaza], with its thousands of rockets pointed at us, didn’t happen by accident. It happened because of our mistakes, pulling out of Gaza and letting Hamas run in the [2006 Palestinian] elections.”

“It’s clear that every other act [short of a retaking of the Strip] will only serve as a deterrent until the next time they want to test us.”