Before beginning, this needs to be said: the reasons Hamas has control of Palestinian areas are that it has terrorized Palestinians into voting for it in “fair elections,” and it has been “educating” children into a deep hatred of Israel from the time they were born.
I will no longer separate the terms Hamas and Palestinian – because, at this time, there isn’t an atom’s width of difference between the two.
I will only use the term Palestinian because there are effectively no Palestinians who are not supporters of Hamas. Go ahead: prove me wrong using unbiased sources.
For a very long time, I have wondered whether a two-state solution was possible in Israel. No matter how many times there were “talks,” those “talks” were almost always followed up by Palestinian “soldiers” shooting at Israeli civilians. Those unprovoked attacks were invariably followed by celebrations in Palestinian neighborhoods and by funerals in Israeli towns.
For a very long time, we’ve been reading about Palestinian children throwing rocks at Israeli soldiers, sometimes without the soldiers retaliating and sometimes with the soldiers firing back with less-than-fatal ammunition such as rubber bullets. Palestinian “soldiers” don’t use rubber bullets because they want to kill their target.
But this latest unprovoked attack should finally prove that Palestinians are not now, nor have ever been, interested in peace with Israel. They are only interested in Israel’s wholesale destruction.
It is time for Israel to finally acknowledge that a “two-state solution” is both impractical and impossible. Israel must declare the Oslo Accords as inoperative. It must also put the UN on notice that, as a matter of its own defense, it will no longer operate under UN restrictions.
October 7, 2013, was Israel’s equivalent of Pearl Harbor. Israel was attacked without warning and without mercy. Hamas targeted unarmed civilians. Hundreds have been killed, wounded, or taken prisoner. Those killed were not “collateral damage”: they were the intended targets.
It is time for Israel to treat its enemy as an enemy and not as a possible friend at some time in the far future.
Blood has been spilled, and not one of us has the right to tell Israel that it should tolerate the blood of yet more innocent lives in the futile search for peace.
