Why There Is a Hamas-Israel War

The deliberate murder of eight and the wounding of nine Israeli rabbinical students in Jerusalem only highlights the fact that Hamas is at war with Israel. It is, from Hamas's view, a war that will never end until Israel is exterminated and its citizens killed or expelled. No other analysis is accurate or can explain what is happening... [snip]

To see who is aggressor here is an easy task. If Hamas were to stop attacking Israel there would be no cross-border Israeli operations whatsoever. But if Israel does nothing in retaliation—as it has repeatedly for long periods of time—the Hamas attacks on Israel continue. Israel ’s goal is to defend its civilians; Hamas’s goal is to destroy Israel as a state and society. [snip]

Hamas should be isolated by all western countries and pressured with the goal of pushing it out of power by making it realize that it must stop the war on Israel or face that outcome. Aid or comfort given to Hamas by the West will only encourage its intransigence and lead to more violence and suffering.

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