What will happen after the Hamas forms its government? Will there be coordination between Israel and the PA?
We will be able to coordinate things without going through Hamas. There are plenty of international groups operating on the other side whom we can use to transfer goods and with whom we can talk. We still don’t know what will happen – whether Hamas will recognize Israel’s previous agreements with the PA and accept our other conditions [disarm, change the Hamas charter and recognize Israel’s right to exist]. We do, however, make a distinction between the PA and the Hamas government and some of the humanitarian needs of the population. Not all Palestinians are involved in terrorism. If we allow the transfer of basic goods due to a fear of a humanitarian crisis, aren’t we making it easy for Hamas not to accept our conditions, since they know Israel will ultimately give in? Our stance against Hamas will be firm and decisive. We [the defense establishment] recommended not letting Palestinians enter Israel for work purposes. Now there is a closure there, and anyway no Palestinians are enteri
