Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon are now doing to Hamas what Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has been doing to the Muslim Brotherhood since July 2013.

Just as al-Sisi worked systematically to prevent a “political revival” of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, so has the Israeli government been working – using the IDF and Shin Bet – to thwart the possibility that Hamas, who is affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, takes over the Palestinian street in the West Bank.

Except there’s one obvious difference: While Israel is acting systematically and thoroughly against Hamas, it is not doing so with the same brutality and violence al-Sisi used. His style is different, but the objective is the same.

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