Dr. Michael Ben-Ari, author of the books 'The Great Revolt' and 'Vision and Dagger,' responded sharply to IDF spokesman Brigadier General Daniel Hagari, who said last night in an interview with Channel 13 that Hamas cannot be destroyed because it is an idea.
Heghari said: "Hamas is an idea. Anyone who thinks it can be eliminated is wrong. It's the Muslim Brotherhood. What can be done is to grow something else. Something to replace it.".
Dr. Ben Ari responded: "Daniel Hegary said two things, one of which is true, one of which is a disaster. He said that Hamas is an idea - which is true, but then he also said that it cannot be defeated - which is a disaster. If Daniel Hegary does not understand that we have no choice but to defeat Hamas, then he does not understand anything from his life and he is actually bringing about our destruction and is actually signing the destruction of the State of Israel, the slaughter of all of us, the rape of our women, the slaughter of our babies, God forbid.".
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Ben Ari explained: "So how do you defeat Hamas? First of all, you have to understand how Hamas actually reached its power. We gave it power. In 1993, it was five years after it arose, the Oslo Accords came. They shed our blood and got a reward. They staged an intifada and got a reward. They saw that it worked, 'We are managing to subdue the strongest country in the Middle East, the one who defeated Egypt and Syria, we are managing to win, let's continue. We will eventually achieve a greater achievement than that, without agreements with them like a wizard, if we managed to expel them from one dunam, we will expel them from the entire Land of Israel.' These were statements made at the time by Ahmed Yassin and his friends, these are their statements.
""And then we gave them the disengagement, there was another intifada. The intifada of October 2000, the so-called second intifada, and then we surrendered again, we gave them Gaza.".
""We fled Gaza, we expelled communities. We didn't realize that we gave them at that moment the best possible boost of energy. We proved to them that jihad works and we surrender.".
""So how do we defeat this? We turn the wheel back," Ben Ari stated. "First of all, we expel them instead of them expelling us. Open the gates of Gaza, a humanitarian corridor to Canada, to wherever you want in the world.
""Open the gates of Gaza, the Gaza port, expel them. By the way, there's no need to expel them, just open the gates, they'll leave. And the most important thing, settlement in Gaza.".
