Blue State Blues: The Ceasefire in Gaza Only Comes when Hamas Is GoneJoel B. Pollak 3 Nov 2023
There should be no ceasefire in Gaza until Hamas is eliminated. Any “pause” would slow the momentum of the Israeli military, allow Hamas to regroup, and give bad actors — like Russia and China — leverage to stop Israel from winning an existential war.
In the past, Israel has sought or accepted ceasefires with Hamas because of international pressure; because it believed that Hamas had been deterred by airstrikes; and because the cost of sending Israeli ground troops into Gaza was too great to bear.
But this time really is different.
The October 7 terror attack revealed that Hamas is not interested in governing Gaza but in murdering as many Israelis as possible. The sheer scale of the attack, and the brutality of the murders, was unprecedented.
Hamas showed that there is no way that Israel can coexist with it as a neighbor. It will not sit quietly, as the Syrian regime has done for 50 years, technically in a state of war with Israel but not actively engaged in attacks against it or attempts to invade.
Moreover, the fact that Hamas carried out its atrocities in the name of Islam means that the world has a stake in an Israeli victory. If Hamas survives, it will reignite radical Islamic terror throughout the rest of the world — in the Arab world, and in the West.
The cost in human lives, both military and civilian, will be much greater if Hamas is allowed to persist in its control of Gaza. Since it seized Gaza in a 2007 coup, it has sparked three major conflicts, causing civilian deaths among both Israelis and Palestinians.
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