Fmr. Israeli PM Naftali Bennett: After War We Need to ‘Denazify Gaza’

EXCERPT:

BENNETT: “Well, I’ll tell you what I think we ought to do. The first thing is to fully disarm Gaza and ensure that there is no more arms, no more explosives there after we dismantle and eliminate Hamas. The first thing is to kill the Hamas leadership and the terrorists. Then clean up Gaza from weapons and explosives so something like this can never happen again. The third thing I would do is create a buffer zone into Gaza of about one and a half kilometers deep which would become a no man’s land between Gaza and Israel, again, so this sort of thing could not happen. And Israel would retain overall security and defense responsibility, but we don’t want to govern the Gazans. So, what I think we would do is create an interim technocratic self-government that would, say, for about five years govern Gaza. Denazify Gaza, which means clean out all the incitement, all the education that all Jews are pigs and devils, and after five years we would revisit and figure out how to create a sustainable government, perhaps with our Abraham Accord partners, countries in that area.”