If the goal had been political, Operation Arrow and Shield could have been crowned a crushing success. The security conduct this time did not suffer from the failures of petty politics.

A surgical operation requiring complete silence in order to simultaneously capture three senior targets had to be received in a very limited circle. The round of thanks from the chief of staff, the head of the Shin Bet, the defense minister and Netanyahu was also part of the same display of purpose of uniformity internally and externally. It wasn't even Ben-Gvir who led the security establishment to plan and carry out the targeted assassination of the three senior Islamic Jihad figures.