Posted by
Bert Chapman on Wednesday, January 07, 2009 6:23:50 PM
Imagine living in a state or province anywhere in the world and visualize the southwest boundary of your home region being subject to artillery fire on a regular basis. Consider what it would be like to live under such a situation where your homes, families, and businesses regularly experience explosive projectiles fired into your living and working spaces. This nightmarish scenario has been a reality faced by Israelis living adjacent to Gaza since Israel made its ill-advised decision to return Gaza to the Palestinean Authority. That "authority" has been dominated by the Islamist terrorist group Hamas which was popularly elected against the corrupt non-performing Palestinean "Liberation Organization" of Yassar Arafat. Did Hamas try to materially improve the lives of Gaza's residents and pursue peaceful coexistence with Israel upon attaining power? Not a chance!
Hamas is a terrorist organization like Al Qaida whose political and ideological raison d'etre is destroying Israel. The Israelis have demonstrated remarkable if not foolish patience in tolerating Hamas' misbehavior in recent years. Israel has every right to pursue the destruction of Hamas and should not stop until it has retaken Gaza and told the apologists of Islamist terror to shove their allegedly moralistic objections up their terrorist appeasing rear ends! There will not be any hope for peace in that region until Palestinean and other Arab children quit being indoctrinated with the dangerous mythology that Israel is an alien presence in the Middle East that needs to be expelled. The curriculum of Arab school systems and mosques must be revised to tell the Arab world that Israel's existence is part of God's will and that they should quit clinging to 60+ years of Taliban mullah fantasies that Israel can be driven into the sea. How much more of their human and financial capital will retarded Arabs invest in their suicidal stupidity? The Islamist amen corner in some leftist Western media outlets, the European Community, the United Nations, and European Union but that's the irrevocable fact of the matter.
I hope the Israeli Government will have the persistence and courage to only stop their operations against Hamas once they have decimated this terrorist organization and left the putrid corpses of its fighters rot on the streets of Gaza no matter how much international howling there is.