The first, he said, is to recruit the international community to actively back and help in Israel's efforts against the tunnels, and the second is to create an intelligent system of carrots and sticks that will ensure Hamas knows that next confrontation will cost them their control of Gaza.
The former finance minister called for the taking of steps which would delay the next round of violence with Hamas by as long as possible. "There is not even one source that argues that the tunnel revealed this week is the only or the last one. In the ongoing campaign which we find ourselves in, 'deterrence' has become an empty word," he said.