Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made it clear the fight with Hamas isn’t over, even after the Israeli military took out the terror group’s leader. But the Jewish state’s next steps may depend less on what happens on Nov. 5 than what happens on Jan. 20, foreign policy analyst Walid Phares told Newsmax on Thursday.

Phares said on “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” “Netanyahu told us the couple words that are very important: ‘It’s not over yet.’ So the Israeli plan is much more strategic, much more global.

“Yes, of course, whomever is going to be, you know, elected on the fifth [of November] will be very important. But it’s the 20th of January where policies really are going to be changing. So Netanyahu knows that between now and then, many, many things can be done. Including forcing this, this continuous wave of attacks to put them both off balance.”

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