Israel has shown great progress in dealing with its various terrorist threats. The question still remains: what is the endgame in this war?

Many years ago, Microsoft was accused of stealing material from other companies and incorporating it into its Windows operating system and internet browser. It came out in court that in fighting Netscape, Microsoft threatened to cut off the latter’s air supply.

How does Israel win its seven-front war? It cannot kill every Hamas member, and even if it could, new members would sprout up from the youth living in Gaza. Hezbollah has tens of thousands of members, many of whom have moved north or crossed over into Syria. However well Israel is destroying their weaponry and killing their fighters and commanders, the IDF cannot get rid of them all. So how can Israel win? How can Israelis go back to their homes feeling confident that they will not be shelled or once again invaded? The only way short of nuclear weapons is to cut off the oxygen of the terror groups.

A point that is often forgotten is that under pressure from Saddam Hussein, Yasser Arafat threw his lot with the Iraqi dictator prior to the First Gulf War. The immediate effect was that he lost all of his funding from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other Gulf states that had been bankrolling his anti-Israel terror activities for years. The PLO was in dire straits in the........

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