Opportunity for the World and Israel

Annie

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As some in the blogosphere have said, hell even some Israeli’s are saying it….the Hamas victory is actually a good way of letting the world know in the most definite of terms that those in Palestine believe in terrorism:

Following their resounding election victory, the Islamic militants of Hamas met the question of whether they will change their stripes with a loud “no”: no recognition of Israel, no negotiations, no renunciation of terror.

And should be dealt with accordingly:

TEL AVIV, Jan. 28 — Arie Schmidt stopped on Saturday to place a pebble on the memorial to the 21 dead at the Dolphinarium disco, killed in a suicide bombing by Hamas in 2001. The dead were mostly teenagers.

Mr. Schmidt sighed, then chained one careful word to the next on what it means that Hamas is now the official Palestinian power. “I tell you,” he began, “we think it is actually the best thing that can happen to Israel.

“Because now we see the real face of the Palestinians,” said Mr. Schmidt, 56, a computer engineer from Haifa who considers himself neither on the left nor the right. “From their vote we can understand their theory to destroy the state of Israel is not a theory but a fact.
[…]Still, from conversations in Tel Aviv, where the palm trees and beaches can still create the illusion that violent reality is far away, anger was not the strongest emotion. Rather there seemed to be satisfaction, not with the result itself, but with how it put issues into plain view.

In electing Hamas, many Israelis here said, Palestinians could no longer hide behind figures like Yasir Arafat, who talked about peace but, they said, worked to undermine it until his death in November 2004. His Fatah faction now lies beaten, its monopoly on official power ended.

In contrast, Hamas stands quite clearly for the destruction of Israel. Now the rest of the world, Israelis said, can see this is the program supported by most Palestinians.

I too see this as a good thing. They wanted all out war, by George I believe they will get one. With the added benefit of Israel not having to pull it’s punches any longer. If the official state of Palestine declares they will accept nothing less then the destruction of Israel, then Israel must do what needs to be done to defeat them. Plain and simple.

Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the hawkish Israeli Likud party, wants to move the security fence farther into the West Bank after the Hamas election victory.

“An extreme Islamic state that seeks to destroy Israel and whose leaders’ hands are soiled with Jewish blood … is emerging,” the former prime minister said.​

Netanyahu dismissed the view that governing might make Hamas more moderate, comparing the Islamist group to Afghanistan Afghanistan’s Taliban and the religious hard-liners in Iran.

The west no longer has to restrain Israel; we no longer have to be the moderating influence. What better turn of events could there have been? Well, a better one would have been a surprise victory for a moderate government in Palestine, that only wished peace with Israel….but we all knew that was not going to happen...
 

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