On Friday morning, my colleague Stephen's Keep, who co-hosts, NPR's morning

edition, spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

It's been nearly six weeks since the Hamas attack that killed some 1,200 Israelis.

Since then Israel has bombed and besieged Gaza, saying it seeks to destroy Hamas and rescue the

hostages its holding. But Gaza officials say those attacks have killed more than

11,000 people. Nenya who talked about a range of issues, but we wanted to focus on one part of the interview,

what the future of Gaza may look like.

What do you intend to do with Gaza once Israeli troops are fully in control on the ground there.

We have two main goals there.

One is to prevent things, this threat from me emerging for that we need to

demilitarize Gaza and the second thing we have to do is de-radicalize Gaza.

It's like what do you do when you beat the Nazi regime?

Well you make sure that Germany doesn't arm itself again and

you also make sure that Nazism is removed. Same thing you did in the victory against Japan. You won the victory, but you then

also made sure that there was a cultural change in Japan. We need a cultural change in any civilian administration in Gaza. It can't be

committed to funding terrorism and has to be committed to fighting terrorism.

When you say any civilian administration prime minister that seems to be the question you've said you don't want the Palestinian

authority running gazah which would be the other major Palestinian organization other than Hamas

you don't want them running Gaza. Who else is there?

Well, first of all, anyone who doesn't share Hamas's goals and who doesn't share Hamas's

in Caucasian of teaching children, Palestinian children that Israel has to be

destroyed and that's their goal in life. I mean that's what the

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