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On May 15, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant issued a dramatic challenge to his own prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Speaking for the military he oversees, Gallant, a retired general, described to the Israeli public a glaring lack of strategy in Israel’s operation in the Gaza Strip and pointed explicitly to the man responsible: Netanyahu. He detailed how the security establishment had prepared plans for the “day after” Hamas was defeated in Gaza, only to be rebuffed by Netanyahu. The prime minister not only rejected these plans, famously ruling out the Palestinian Authority (PA) in its current form as a partner for governing Gaza after Hamas, but refused to deliberate any other alternatives. His chosen strategy, as usual, was no strategy.