There’s Only Only One Way to End the Israel–Hamas War

Though it is being widely attacked as an unjustified use of force, the announced Israeli intention to take control of Gaza and eliminate Hamas as a terrorist organization is eminently justified by Hamas’s outrages against Israel. It is also the only possible way of bringing peace to the Arabs and the Jews of the area.

The Arab powers generally regard the so-called Palestinians (Arabs in the old League of Nations Palestine Mandate that did not become citizens of Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, or Israel), as materialist sharpers, as they think of the Jews and the Christian Lebanese. Led by Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, they kept the Palestinians in desperate detention camps that were nurseries for terrorism, to maintain them as a goad and provocation against the Jewish state and to distract the Arab masses from the misgovernment most of them were inflicting upon their peoples. Today, the leading Arab countries are silently encouraging Israel to destroy Hamas but refusing to run the risk of accepting one Hamas terrorist voluntarily into their countries. Hamas was set up as the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood that has been conducting an insurgency against the British and then the government of Egypt since the Brotherhood was founded in the 1920s.

This did not prevent the Egyptian government from facilitating the resupply of Hamas through the tunnels from Egypt into Gaza for decades. With the events of the last two years, the political circumstances of the area have changed drastically. The paymaster of the terrorists, Iran, has been profoundly humiliated and militarily defeated. It is under heavy boycott, and its trillion-dollar investment in becoming a nuclear military power has been destroyed. The United States has made it clear that it will continue to destroy that program at intervals if necessary. Iran has practically no navy or air force, and its missile-launching ability has been severely degraded. Its army is essentially the agency that, by riveting itself with the official police on the backs of the entire population, has prevented the oppressed Iranian public from evicting the much-hated and failed Islamic regime of the country. Iran does not have the means to go on financing Hamas and Hezbollah.

Even though approximately 80 percent of the Hamas-trained terrorists have now been killed, Hamas has made it clear that it intends to continue to govern Gaza, which it has done since it narrowly emerged as the largest party in the election that George W. Bush demanded in 2006, as did Hezbollah in the contemporary Lebanese election that Bush also demanded. The U.S. president was inspired by the under-researched belief that democratic elections would never produce the elevation of undemocratic parties, and therefore all the world’s trouble spots needed was elections to ensure that there would be no more wars.