Both-siderism is alive and well

[Jedi Guy]

18. "This is the enemy."

I think this is what people somehow, inexplicably, don't get. Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, etc., are all predicated on a single idea: the total and utter destruction of the State of Israel, the slaughter and scattering of its inhabitants, the rape and mutilation of its women and children.

How do you negotiate with people like that? Do you come to the table and meekly ask that they only destroy half of your country, slaughter half of your people, rape and defile only half of your women and children? And if not half, perhaps 40%? Do I hear 30%?

The answer, of course, is that you can't negotiate with people like that. There is no common ground to be found there. There's only survival or destruction. Hamas and its fellow travelers won't stop, won't relent, won't ever negotiate in good faith, and even if they did, they would break their word at the first opportunity and go back to killing Jews.

Hamas officials have repeatedly said, "We love death as you love life." They are willing to sacrifice their women, their children, their elderly, they're willing to embrace death with a smile on their face if only they can kill a few Jews on their way out. That's who Hamas is and that's what they do.

So Israel's only course here is to destroy Hamas, root and branch. That's it and that's all, and it sure looks like that's exactly what Israel intends to do.