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PAM GOLDING ON MAIN NOW LETTING Locate your office in Kenilworth. Peter Golding 082 825 5561 | Teresa Cook 079 527 0348 Office: 021 426 4440 www.pamgolding.co.za/on-main VOLUME 31 No 10 NOVEMBER 2014 /5775 www.cjc.org.za An interview with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu By Shlomo Cesana, Gonen Ginat, and Amos Regev/JNS.org In this interview with Israel Hayom objective, meaning achieving lasting commander and a bad ahead of Rosh Hashanah, Prime peace and quiet by re-establishing commander, is that Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared deterrence via dealing [Hamas] a massive a good commander his perspective and strategy, and blow. What happens if they try again? They knows how to achieve analysed the changing realities in the will be dealt a doubly debilitating blow — the declared goals for a Middle East. and they know it.” lesser price. We would Why didn’t Israel vanquish Hamas? have ended up with the Israel Hayom: Is Israel doing better or he answer to that question is same result, only with a worse than it was doing on the eve of Rosh “Tvery complex and it entails a much heavier price, and Hashanah last year? variety of considerations. One of those I don’t want to elaborate enjamin Netanyahu: “We are doing considerations is a spatial consideration, further.” Bbetter while facing a harsher reality. which cannot be ignored. We have Hamas How influential was the The reality around us is that radical Islam in the south, al-Qaeda and the Nusra IDF in preventing a wider is marching forward on all fronts. This Front in the Golan Heights, Hezbollah in ground operation in Lebanon, and Islamic State in the east; Gaza? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Kotel on 22 reality poses a challenge for us, as well as January 2013. Photo: Marc Israel Sellem/POOL/Flash90. for the rest of the world. One of my duties and above all we have Iran, which has othing was as prime minister is making sure the world abandoned neither its support of some “Nprevented. We that unless a cease-fire was struck, we understands that our war against these of these terrorist groups, nor its plans to used combined judgment — mine, the would have to launch a ground operation Islamic organisations and states, as well acquire nuclear weapons. defense minister’s, and the chief of staff’s, against the tunnels, something that was as against the Islamic Republic of Iran, is “I have decided that the best way to and eventually that of the cabinet members. not acceptable at the time. their war as well. tackle these problems is to seriously I won’t comment on cabinet meetings, but “When we had completed uncovering “We are actually doing better now undermine Hamas in Gaza, but refrain I can say that within the cabinet there was, the tunnels, I made the decision to pull the because on one of those fronts Hamas from getting dragged in there. Otherwise, most of the time and when it came time military out of [enemy] fire range, because has received a debilitating blow, the likes we would have found ourselves fighting to decide, unanimity about the nature of I thought it was pointless to leave the of which it hasn’t received since it seized not a 50-day war, but a 500-day one, and operations. soldiers there, and that the right thing to do control of the Gaza Strip. We targeted the heavy toll would have included more “[Operation Protective Edge] was was to resume the aerial strikes. The thing each of Hamas’s capabilities and we set than human lives, but other areas as well. executed according to an outline and that guided me, and proved right, was that it back years — its rocket stockpiles, by We would have had to face the question of objectives I had set. The first order of at the end of the day, the [aerial] campaign killing 1,000 terrorists, destroying terror what to do with the seized territory; there business was targeting the terror tunnels would trump [Hamas’s] attrition, because tunnels, demolishing terror towers, and would have been an international price to in the south. That was a massive aerial our firepower is greater than theirs. That’s crippling infrastructures Hamas spent pay — and all of that wouldn’t have yielded strike. Then came preparing international also what happened — they agreed to our years building. a much better result. public opinion, via conversations I had with demand for a cease-fire.” “I believe we achieved the operation’s “I think the difference between a good prominent leaders… I made it clear to them Continued on page 19 Cape Board conference Bnoth Zion Yom Tov Market Yoni Bass, Michael Bagraim, Howard Sackstein, Barbara Miller and See more on Rael Kaimowitz — participants in the panel discussion 'Making a pages 8 and 9 difference, differently’ at the Cape Board's annual conference. BZA WIZO volunteers at their very successful Yom Tov Market. See more on page 20 INSIDE THIS ISSUE... South African ‘Friday Night Live’ and Herzlia Middle School Interview with Solidarity swim for entrepreneurs visit ‘Super Shabbos’ at goes mobile Professor Milton Shain Israel Israel the Gardens Shul as he retires Pages 4 and 14 Pages 7 and 17 Page 22 and 23 Page 26 Page 31 2 NEWS & VIEWS Cape Jewish Chronicle November 2014 Community Noticeboard L RDENS SHU GA CT HOLOCAUST CENTRE habbos Super S Public Lecture: German society 1 November. 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