Road To Peace, Eliminate HAMAS

[From article]
The salient point is that Israel handed Hamas control of the Gaza Strip in 2005 to placate Western leaders. Since that time, Israel has had nothing but trouble, and it keeps getting worse by the day. I know that there was bitter resentment inside Israel in 2005 because the tiny country was forced to defend “settlers” in Gaza at great cost, but that was nothing compared with the cost of the three major military operations since withdrawal. In fact, Israel would have been much better off if she had never relinquished control -- better off in terms of shekels spent and lives lost. That’s the truth, like it or not.
Through it all, Hamas has remained what Hamas is and always has been -- a terrorist organization whose only reason for being is to annihilate Israel. Hamas has taken a page out of Yasser Arafat’s playbook. This is what Arafat said:
“Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations. Since January 1965, when Fatah was born, we have become the most dangerous enemy that Israel has…. We shall not rest until the day when we return to our home, and until we destroy Israel.” (El Mundo, Caracas, Venezuela, February 11, 1980)
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Hamas’ leaders have played Western leaders like a fiddle, and they have been so effective because Western leaders have been too ambivalent about Israel. Some of them are openly hostile to the Jewish state, but regardless of their true beliefs, the outcome for Israel has been the same -- war followed by war followed by war with brief respites in between so the enemy can reload and take care of their wounded.
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They need to understand that Israel is the West’s frontline against radical Islam. Israel is their primary target now, but Islamists have the rest of us in their crosshairs.
That’s exactly what Islamists are saying and they are saying it openly. After Israel, we’re next -- probably Europe first, then the U.S., then Russia, then China. It’s the world against radical Islam. They started it, and we are foolish if bury our heads in the sand and pretend it isn’t so.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/07/its_time_to_target_hamas_for_elimination.html

July 9, 2014
It's Time to Target Hamas for Elimination
By Neil Snyder