As the Israel and Hamas war continues, we must get perspective. Israel is fighting a war of self-defense, while Hamas terrorists wage a murderous assault on Israel. This is because Hamas started the war by firing missiles into Israeli cities, killing and wounding multiple Israelis. That includes not only the four reported in the media but the other Israelis who died over the last six years from the terrorists' on-again/off-again terrorist attacks.
As part of its self-defense war, Israel has every right to wage the ground war it is now conducting in Gaza. But the importance of Israel's fight to defeat Hamas terrorists increases when considering that terrorism is not the only weapon Hamas and others use against Israel.
Terrorists have a history of using "peace talks" only as a tactical means of compromising and destroying Israel. For example, consider the Oslo Peace talks in '93. At the time, the talks were between the PLO under Arafat...and Israel. Israel had made treaty concessions. Afterwards, Arafat violated his treaty agreement and ordered the next attack on Israel. In 2004, the Hizballah terrorists also made a murderous assault on Israel. Once again, Israel halted its self-defense war prematurely, due to international pressure, and made concessions. As Israel made concessions, the UN resolutions empowered the Hizballah to Israel's detriment. Then, Hizballah assaulted Israel again in 2006. So reader do you see a pattern here?
Terrorists only use the peace process to gain one-sided advantages and land from Israel. Then they attack what's left of Israel. Terrorists also use the (temporary) ceasefire to recover from the last war, consolidate their forces and plan future attacks against Israel. By combining "negotiations" with missiles, Hamas hopes to destroy the entirety of Israel slowly, over time, compromise by compromise. Meanwhile, the peace treaties give terrorists an illusion of civility that misleads the international community into believing that terrorists will behave themselves.
That terrorists twist diplomacy into a weapon proves that free nations, like Israel and the US, can not trust terrorists with peace treaties. Civilized people can not peacefully coexist with terrorists. They couldn't coexist with Hitler's Nazis. Neither can they coexist with Hamas terrorists. So the only way to keep free nations safe is the overthrow of terrorist regimes like Hamas'.
Israel must not repeat its past error of stopping their self-defense war prematurely. Israelis should ignore international pressure to do so. Otherwise, only the Hamas terrorists will gain the strategic upper hand and make strides in their long-term plan to conquer Israel. Therefore, Israel must continue fighting to stop Hamas from firing rockets into Israeli cities. The most effective way of doing this is to overthrow the Hamas's terrorist regime.
An article in the Wall Street Journal claimed that Israel does not want to overthrow the Hamas government because they fear a power vacuum will become a haven for the next batch of terrorists. If that is true about the Israelis, then this writer argues that Israel should still overthrow the Hamas's evil regime. By doing so, Israel will prove to everyone that terrorist governments will not be tolerated, especially if those kind of governments start terrorism against Israel. This may also send a message to irrational Palestinians that they should discontinue voting for terrorists who want to murder Israelis (Palestinians voted for Islamic extremists before the Hamas seized control.
If other militants gain control after Hamas is overthrown, then free nations should help Israel consistently eradicate terrorist "governments". The thing justifying that is the fact that terrorist-run governments are illegitimate even if voted for by the Palestinian people. Here we must remember that Hitler's regime was still an unjust dictatorship despite being voted for by the people. Likewise, with Islamic or other terrorist regimes Palestinians vote for. By effectively eradicating each and every terrorist group that attempts to rule Palestine, terrorists and their irrational supporters will give up trying to vote terrorists into power. They would start to vote for moderates who are not terrorists and who will not initiate terrorism against Israel (or other free countries).
While Israel is being morally responsible about reducing the number of civilian deaths in Palestine, the Hamas are deliberately endangering Palestinians by hiding behind their houses and facilities. Hamas terrorists hope to trick other nations into blaming Israel for Palestinian civilian deaths. That way Hamas hopes to intensify pressure on Israel to accept a ceasefire. Israel and the rest of the free countries must not be fooled. If Israel does not continue fighting, more Israeli civilians would be murdered by Hamas terrorists.
So let's hope Israel destroys Hamas.
