The considerations that constrained Israel in the past are no longer relevant.
One could argue that Israel sustained increasingly deadly Hamas rocket fire for close to two decades because it has refrained from re-occupying Gaza.
Former defense and foreign minister Avigdor Liberman has long pressed this point, stating “We either have to completely occupy it, or reconcile ourselves to endless rounds of rockets.”
In the past he was almost a lone voice, even though it was a prophetic one.
