Before the October 7 Massacre, Israel invested $1bn in a sophisticated border fence as a way of living next to Sinwar's Hamas regime in Gaza. The alternative was a major preemptive war to topple Hamas, like the one after October 7, with massive costs and zero international understanding. It failed miserably. Hamas overran it in minutes. The lesson Israelis have drawn is: we cannot, and will not, live next to a jihadi regime threatening barbaric atrocities. No fence, no buffer zone, can ever hold that threat back forever. The bad guys will always find a way over it, under it, or through it. We're not going to contain problems—we're going to eliminate them. Netanyahu is being attacked left and right for leaving Hamas standing at the end of the Gaza war, as part of the ceasefire that brought the surviving hostages home. Whoever forms the next government has unfinished business against the regime that is threatening to kidnap little babies all over again. Nobody in Israel will accept living next to Hamas Gaza.