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Israel’s pledge to eliminate Hamas raises fears of what lies ahead
In the aftermath of Hamas’s surprise and brutal assault over the weekend, officials from Israel and the U.S. are saying the terrorist group must not be allowed to survive.

“Just as the forces of civilization united to defeat ISIS, the forces of civilization must support Israel in defeating Hamas,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an address to the nation this week.

But it’s a goal that has no clear timeline or road map and one that will be difficult to carry out.

Israeli officials and regional experts are warning of, at least, a months-long Israeli military campaign in the Gaza Strip. And there are immediate fears the conflict could spill out across the region and beyond.

While Hamas’s main base of military operations is in Gaza — a narrow strip of sandy land sandwiched between Israel, Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea — its leadership lives across the world.

Its funding and military materials are largely provided by Iran, whose militant network extends to Hezbollah in Lebanon, militias in Iraq and the Houthis in Yemen.

“We understand that you cannot kill ideas, but you absolutely can demolish the regime or the leadership,” said Neumi Neumann, former director of research for Israel’s internal security agency, the Shin Bet, now a visiting fellow with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

She said a narrow campaign could avoid a larger conflict, focused on targeting Hamas’s two top leaders, Yahya Sinwar, the group’s leader based in Gaza, and Saleh al-Arouri, deputy head of Hamas’s political bureau, who lives in Lebanon.

“They both are trying to incite Palestinians in the West Bank, they incite Israeli Arabs inside east Jerusalem. They are trying to do a multi-front campaign against Israel,” Neumann said.

Democrats and Republicans have come out to say Hamas cannot survive.

The group needs to be “taken off the battlefield, that could mean kill or capture, whatever the Israelis need to do,” Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) said to reporters Tuesday evening after a classified briefing on Israel.

“It’s clear that Hamas needs to be fully neutralized here, and there’s bipartisan consensus around that issue.”

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), speaking to Fox News from Jerusalem after leading a congressional delegation across the Middle East, said Israel will not be safe until Hamas is gone.

“It is extremely important that Israel proceed and make sure that they are absolutely destroying Hamas,” she said.

“This organization I would equate to ISIS. They are barbarians, and yes there will be some horrible tragedies along the way, but Israel is warning the people of the Gaza Strip, please move away from those Hamas targets. But Israel will not be safe, the people will not be safe until Hamas is gone.”

The European Union and United Nations have already warned that Israel is committing war crimes in its response to Hamas, pointing to Jerusalem’s announcement of a sweeping siege on Gaza.

Biden has avoided similar public statements, giving Israel space to target Hamas in what is likely to be a brutal military operation on the densely populated Gaza Strip, where the terrorist group has blended its infrastructure among the civilian population.

Israel is reportedly preparing to launch a ground assault on Hamas-controlled territory, which would begin a bloody new phase in the war.

“The calls in Israel to topple Hamas now are loud. I do not know if they will win the day, but I would not rule it out,” said Natan Sachs, director of the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, on a panel Tuesday.

“It is possible that Israel will try to go all the way in or find itself going all the way in [to Gaza]. And what would be the day after? I don’t know. And more importantly, the Israeli leadership doesn’t know. It would be an extremely difficult, possibly terrible scenario afterwards.”

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