Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outlined three prerequisites to successful and lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians of Gaza on Monday.
Netanyahu detailed the keys to peace in an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal. According to the Israeli leader, the first step toward peace involves destroying the terror group Hamas.
Israel declared war on Hamas and invaded the Gaza Strip as a result of a terror attack on October 7 during which Hamas terrorists killed about 1,200 Israelis. Hundreds more Israelis and others were taken captive by Hamas and Palestinians who followed the terrorists into Israel.
To destroy Hamas, “its military capabilities must be dismantled and its political rule over Gaza must end,” Netanyahu said.
“Hamas’s leaders have vowed to repeat the Oct. 7 massacre ‘again and again.’ That is why their destruction is the only proportional…
