it's great to have you on the show, mr ayalon. you have a long, distinguished career at the top of the israeli security forces. obviously that ended some time ago. you have been watching israel's military assault in gaza from afar. has it unfolded in the way you expected? yes, it has unfolded in the way i expected but not in the way that i thought it should be. there is a huge tension between the way that i see this war and the way that the government define it, and the problem is, and i have said it from the very beginning, that this war is a war without any political goal. and what happens to this type of war, that the war becomes the end and not the means in order to achieve a better political goal. so the answer is yes and no. isn't the strategic sort of aim to destroy hamas as a fighting force and to completely eliminate it as a governing force in gaza, isn't that a clear political strategic ambition? no, absolutely not. it is a military goal, it is not a political goal. we have to understand that when we discuss the whole co

it's great to have you on the show, mr ayalon.ended some time ago.