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March 21, 2018

Israel’s New Strategy for Keeping Hamas on the Defensive

Going beyond deterrence, the IDF is trying to defang the terror group.

For the past several years, the IDF’s approach to Gaza has primarily been reactive: it has responded to occasional rocket fire and other attacks with limited, precision strikes aimed at deterring Hamas from going any farther. But Israel’s response last weekend to the targeting of its border patrol by means of an explosive device speaks to a new strategy. Ron Ben-Yishai explains:

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