Ex-Shin Bet head: Hamas can’t be entirely destroyed

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00:00You said that when it started it was a just war, does that mean you no longer think it is a just war and where for you was that turning point?

00:10The turning point, first of all, I said from the first day that to go to war without a clear definition of the political goal is a huge mistake.

00:25But, you know, as all of us understood, it was a war of defense.

00:32It was a reaction against the horror and the violence that we never could understand until today.

00:42But the way we understand this war, it took us several months.

00:47Some people will tell you eight months, some people will tell you 12 months, but we are fighting for the last 18, 19 months.

00:54We achieved all the military goals, which is to destroy the military capability of Hamas.

01:02Hamas are not acting as a military unit.

01:05They are acting because they are terrorists, but there is no way to eliminate all Hamas activists.

01:11We have to understand what we are facing is a very, very violent ideology.