Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Gaza: If we decide that this war ends with us conquering Gaza, "liberating" the parts of our homeland there, and settling them, then that is what will happen. And, with God's help, that will truly be the absolute victory—not only in the simple sense of exacting a price and permanently instilling a consciousness of defeat in those who did to us what these Nazis did to us. It will also mean that this is no longer just another round. That's it: there will be Jewish settlement, there will be an army, there will be security. Reality itself proves this simple truth.