At least that's the story Seymour Hersh is telling in the New Yorker.
“The Obama transition team…helped persuade Israel to end the bombing of Gaza and to withdraw its ground troops before the Inauguration,” Hersh wrote. Israel stopped the campaign and agreed to a ceasefire without demanding the return of kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit and without the establishment of measures promised by the United States and other Western countries to stop weapons smuggling for Hamas.
See also today's news for the report of Yuval Diskin, chief of Israel's internal security service:
Diskin told the Cabinet that since the three-week military operation ended Jan. 18, Gaza militants have smuggled into the territory 22 tons of explosives, 45 tons of raw materials for producing bombs, dozens of rockets, hundreds of mortar shells, and dozens of anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.
The assessment ... reinforced a growing feeling among Israelis that the government ended the war too soon.
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