Legitimate Use of Force

Instapundit:

BUT DON’T CALL THEM “BARBARIANS,” because that would be rude. Comparing Hamas to the Nazis. “The Hamas founding covenant explicitly calls for the extermination of all Jews. Hitler never made total extermination an official plank of the the Nazi party platform.”

Yet, ignorant and idiotic commentators are yelping about how Israel(!) ruins the peace process. I've always maintained that, given the Hamas charter, Israel ought to annihilate every member, or at least every leading official, of Hamas.

It was a good day when the IDF made Ahmed Yassin fly. But instead of congratulating Israel, most of the world shed tears for the evil "spritual" leader and, of course, blamed Israel for another setback to peace.

Hamas and their sponsor states must be ground into powder for there to be any chance of peace in that region.

Comments

[Mike T]

If Fatah were more reasonable, they could get a permanent peace with the following few proposals and requirements from Israel:

1) F#$% Gaza and Hamas, we want only independence for the West Bank. Do as you wish to those idiots for supporting Hamas, just leave us alone.

2) You can have Jerusalem. All of it, if you will agree to have an independent assessor assess the value of Palestinian property and buy it out from our people.

3) You will remove your troops post haste.

4) You will spend half of your American foreign military aid on helping us rebuild our infrastructure and government.

[Isaac Schrödinger]

Fatah wouldn't last long if it floated such proposals. The ultimate goal for too many Palestinians is the destruction of Jews -- not peaceful coexistence with them.

I don't see how such deep hatred could allow a reasonable political party to maneuver.