Israel Must Finish Off Hamas To Reach Peace, Diplomat Says

Published on December 29, 2023

ATLANTA—Israel can’t make peace until Hamas is defeated, and when it is, prospects will be better for Israelis and Palestinians alike, an Israeli diplomat said. “The war in Gaza is not a choice for us,” Anat Sultan-Dadon, Israel’s Consulate General to the Southeastern United States, told The Epoch Times. “Hamas opened this war with its unprecedented attack on Oct. 7. And we have no choice but to remove this threat from the Gaza Strip. To destroy Hamas. To ensure there is no terror threat emanating from the Gaza Strip. “And to ensure that, contrary to what Hamas leaders claim they want to achieve—which is the destruction of the state of Israel and repeating Oct. 7 again and again and again—it is on Israel to ensure that they will never be able to carry out such an attack again.”...

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