{"id":3086,"date":"2023-10-21T21:34:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T21:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/21\/hamas-a-call-for-its-dissolution-and-peaceful-coexistence-voice\/"},"modified":"2023-10-21T21:34:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T21:34:56","slug":"hamas-a-call-for-its-dissolution-and-peaceful-coexistence-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/21\/hamas-a-call-for-its-dissolution-and-peaceful-coexistence-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamas: A Call for Its Dissolution and Peaceful Coexistence | Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"


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By Elad Vaida<\/span><\/a><\/span>, Op-ed contributor
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A member of the Israeli security forces stands close to a car hit by a rocket fired from Gaza, in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, on October 9, 2023. Stunned by the unprecedented assault on its territory, a grieving Israel has counted over 900 dead and launched a withering barrage of strikes on Gaza that have raised the death toll there to 560, according to Palestinian officials. <\/span> | JACK GUEZ\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Israelis are no strangers to carnage. Having grown up in Israel during the Second Intifada \u2014 a massive terrorist campaign \u2014 I heard of a new terrorist attack on the news every few weeks, and often went to bed praying my family won\u2019t be blown up the next day while riding the bus (a favorite target of suicide bombers).<\/p>\n

One of my friends went into a restaurant with his extended family one weekend \u2014 he had no idea a suicide bomber would claim most of his loved ones\u2019 lives and leave him blind.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But even for a nation accustomed to the horrors of war, Hamas\u2019s recent massacre of innocent Israelis was a terror operation on a scale the Jewish state had never seen before. Hamas butchered 1,400 Israelis<\/a> \u2014 relative to the population, that would be equal to more than 4 million American lives being wiped out.<\/p>\n

At the time of this writing, Israel is amassing 360,000 troops<\/a> to invade Gaza, constituting the largest mobilization in 50 years<\/a>. But even overwhelming military force can\u2019t achieve anything concrete unless it\u2019s harnessed toward an effective grand strategy.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s clear is that Israel can\u2019t afford to continue with its strategy of \u201cmowing the grass<\/a>\u201d in which it retaliates to Hamas\u2019s attacks without completely destroying the terrorist organization. This isn\u2019t an 18th-century-style European war where opposing empires can come together at the end of a war, shake hands, trade some overseas colonies, and then part more or less amicably.<\/p>\n

Hamas doesn\u2019t want peace, it wants dead Jews, as it proudly declares in its founding document<\/a>. For decades, it has taken hundreds of millions of dollars<\/a> in foreign aid and used these funds not to improve the lives of Gaza\u2019s residents, but to purchase rockets and other weapons for its never-ending quest of murdering more Jews.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s impossible to make peace with such an enemy \u2014 how can you negotiate with someone whose main peace condition is your total destruction?<\/p>\n

Israel, as others have pointed out, has no perfect options<\/a> in this conflict. Israelis understandably don\u2019t want to reoccupy the Gaza Strip and regain control of more than 2 million Gazans who hate their guts. They also can\u2019t afford to ignore Hamas\u2019s atrocity \u2014 doing so would entail leaving innocent hostages to Hamas\u2019s mercy, ignoring the death of so many Israelis whose deaths cry out for justice, and emboldening the murderers in Hamas and in other terrorist groups like Hezbollah to carry out more attacks in the future. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The only alternative for the Jewish state is to launch a massive invasion of Gaza, and, while doing everything in its power to limit civilian casualties, destroy Hamas\u2019s leadership and military force and dismantle the terrorist group\u2019s ability to ever launch another serious attack on Israeli soil.<\/p>\n

The American writer Robert Heinlein wrote, \u201cThe noblest fate that a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war\u2019s desolation.\u201d Hamas turns the proposition on its head, using their home as a shield to guard their own bodies against the war\u2019s desolation. They won\u2019t fight out in the open because they know the Israeli Defense Forces would annihilate them. So, as usual, they use the bodies of their wives and children as meat shields, which explains why the terrorist group ordered Gazans to remain in the path<\/a> of the coming Israeli offensive.<\/p>\n

Some have pointed out the flaws in this option. Sure, Israel might severely weaken Hamas, maybe even destroy it completely, but we can\u2019t know if an even worse terrorist group will arise out of Hamas\u2019s ashes.<\/p>\n

While this is a valid concern, Israel has no other option. As we saw, the Jewish state can\u2019t reoccupy Gaza and it can\u2019t allow Hamas\u2019s crimes to go unpunished. The only viable choice is to keep chopping off the Hydra\u2019s heads. Israel must destroy Hamas, withdraw, and if another terrorist group comes to control the area, go back in and destroy it as well. As General William Tecumseh Sherman said<\/a>: \u201cWe can make war so terrible … [and] make them so sick of war that generations would pass away before they would again appeal to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Hamas really cared for its people, it would have laid down the sword long ago and invested in its people\u2019s future. It could have had an excellent economic and diplomatic partner in Israel. Instead, it chose a path of murdering innocents and bringing the horrors of war to their own backyard. It\u2019s sad, but it\u2019s reality.<\/p>\n

To paraphrase the ancient Roman statesman, Cato the Elder, the path is clear on what must be done: \u201cHamas must be destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Elad Vaida is a writer living in Virginia. He was previously the speechwriter for Senator John Kennedy (R-Louisiana). His writing has appeared in American Greatness, The Federalist, The American Conservative, The Washington Examiner, and other publications.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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