"The period of restraint is over, we must do everything we can to strike out against those who wish to hurt the innocent, I hope it won't come to another Operation Cast Lead, but if there is no other choice we will launch another operation."
"We may have to consider a return to that operation," Shalom told Israel Radio. "I say this despite the fact that I know such a thing would, of course, bring the region to a far more combustible situation."