If Gaza is to be freed.....Hamas must be destroyed.
1. "Three. ....times Israel has fought Hamas since 2007, when the terror group seized control of the Gaza Strip.
2. ....the story has been the same: Israel is attacked; Israel responds; Israel is condemned; Israel ceases fire. Hamas is weakened. Hamas recovers. The rockets return. Rewind and repeat.
3. ....the war wont end until the tunnels Hamas uses to attack Israel are destroyed. After that, one presumes, the Israelis will withdraw. And then? We know the answer. Hamas will rebuild. Hamas will rearm. Hamas will dig. Hamas will kill.
4. Inciting, arming, digging, and killing are what Hamas does. Theft, murder, terror, hatred, paranoia, propagandathese are not affects of Hamas. These are not learned behaviors. They are the elements of its DNA.
5. [Hamas'] charter reads, Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it. Hamas disarm? Its patron Qassem Suleimani, head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, says, Disarmament of resistance is a daydream that will only come true in the graveyard.
Hamas reform? Its leader Khaled Meshaal says, I do not want to live with a state of occupiers.
Hamas defanged? It booby-traps homes, kills children, conceals weapons in schools, builds headquarters under hospitals. A defanged tarantula dies because it cannot kill. A defanged Hamas would die for the same reason.
6. Leave Hamas in charge, and you guarantee the war will resume, and more lives will be lost. Topple Hamas, and you remove the source of the conflict, the first cause of the death and destruction. Lives will be saved over time. Want an example? Casualties spiked during the Iraq surge in 2007. Then both American and civilian casualties plummeted. They remained low for yearsuntil America withdrew.
7. If Hamas were destroyed and gone, we would probably end up with something much worse.
How much worse? Something like ISIS.
But something like ISIS is exactly what is in charge of the Gaza Strip.
8. Say Islamic Jihad replaced Hamas tomorrow. Would we be able to tell the difference? How would its rhetoric be more genocidal, its propaganda more manipulative, its aims more maximalist, its tactics more barbaric than what Israel experiences now? Would Islamic Jihad have two Palestinian Mickey Mouses exhorting schoolchildren to kill Jews, rather than one?
9. To prevent a fourth war, to bolster ties with the Sunni powers, to improve the chances of a two-state solution, to help the Palestinians, above all to secure Israel, the decision is clear. Destroy Hamas. End the war. Free Gaza."
Free Gaza | Washington Free Beacon
10 . I never use vile language. But if I did....the vilest would be reserved for Scarborough:
"This is asinine, said the MSNBC host and former Republican congressman. This continued killing of women and children in a way that appears to be indiscriminate is asinine...The United States of America we cannot be associated with this if this continues."
Joe Scarborough: Israel's actions 'asinine' - Jonathan Topaz - POLITICO.com
1. "Three. ....times Israel has fought Hamas since 2007, when the terror group seized control of the Gaza Strip.
2. ....the story has been the same: Israel is attacked; Israel responds; Israel is condemned; Israel ceases fire. Hamas is weakened. Hamas recovers. The rockets return. Rewind and repeat.
3. ....the war wont end until the tunnels Hamas uses to attack Israel are destroyed. After that, one presumes, the Israelis will withdraw. And then? We know the answer. Hamas will rebuild. Hamas will rearm. Hamas will dig. Hamas will kill.
4. Inciting, arming, digging, and killing are what Hamas does. Theft, murder, terror, hatred, paranoia, propagandathese are not affects of Hamas. These are not learned behaviors. They are the elements of its DNA.
5. [Hamas'] charter reads, Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it. Hamas disarm? Its patron Qassem Suleimani, head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, says, Disarmament of resistance is a daydream that will only come true in the graveyard.
Hamas reform? Its leader Khaled Meshaal says, I do not want to live with a state of occupiers.
Hamas defanged? It booby-traps homes, kills children, conceals weapons in schools, builds headquarters under hospitals. A defanged tarantula dies because it cannot kill. A defanged Hamas would die for the same reason.
6. Leave Hamas in charge, and you guarantee the war will resume, and more lives will be lost. Topple Hamas, and you remove the source of the conflict, the first cause of the death and destruction. Lives will be saved over time. Want an example? Casualties spiked during the Iraq surge in 2007. Then both American and civilian casualties plummeted. They remained low for yearsuntil America withdrew.
7. If Hamas were destroyed and gone, we would probably end up with something much worse.
How much worse? Something like ISIS.
But something like ISIS is exactly what is in charge of the Gaza Strip.
8. Say Islamic Jihad replaced Hamas tomorrow. Would we be able to tell the difference? How would its rhetoric be more genocidal, its propaganda more manipulative, its aims more maximalist, its tactics more barbaric than what Israel experiences now? Would Islamic Jihad have two Palestinian Mickey Mouses exhorting schoolchildren to kill Jews, rather than one?
9. To prevent a fourth war, to bolster ties with the Sunni powers, to improve the chances of a two-state solution, to help the Palestinians, above all to secure Israel, the decision is clear. Destroy Hamas. End the war. Free Gaza."
Free Gaza | Washington Free Beacon
10 . I never use vile language. But if I did....the vilest would be reserved for Scarborough:
"This is asinine, said the MSNBC host and former Republican congressman. This continued killing of women and children in a way that appears to be indiscriminate is asinine...The United States of America we cannot be associated with this if this continues."
Joe Scarborough: Israel's actions 'asinine' - Jonathan Topaz - POLITICO.com