Why Hamas Needs To Be Destroyed

Charles Krauthammer has an article at the American Thinker about the war between Israel and Hamas.  He sums up the situation beautifully:

"The grievance? It cannot be occupation, military control or settlers. They were all removed in September 2005. There's only one grievance and Hamas is open about it. Israel's very existence.

Nor does Hamas conceal its strategy. Provoke conflict. Wait for the inevitable civilian casualties. Bring down the world's opprobrium on Israel. Force it into an untenable cease-fire -- exactly as happened in Lebanon. Then, as in Lebanon, rearm, rebuild and mobilize for the next round. Perpetual war. Since its raison d'etre is the eradication of Israel, there are only two possible outcomes: the defeat of Hamas or the extinction of Israel."

 

Please read the whole article--it's worth reading.  Objectivity and honesty in Middle East reporting are hard to find.  This is a propaganda war as well as a ground war, and the American media has ofter bought into the propaganda.