The thing is, Israel can make that happen
PM Netanyahu: ‘I’m not going to agree to end the war before we remove Hamas’ – WSJ
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he would not “agree to end the war before we remove Hamas” in an interview with Wall Street Journal editorial writer Elliot Kaufman, which was later published in the US newspaper on Friday.
“We’re not going to leave them in power in Gaza, 30 miles from Tel Aviv. It’s not going to happen,” he said amid calls by many to accept a lasting ceasefire-hostage release deal in the Palestinian enclave. The Journal op-ed notes that the Israeli prime minister only envisions such a deal to be a partial one if the Palestinian terrorist organization is still intact.
The Israeli leader told Kaufman that Israel is “winning big” against its opponents with the weakening of Hamas and Hezbollah and the dismantlement of Syria’s Assad regime, the op-ed notes.
Unfortunately, there is always some sort of Islamic extremist group to fill the void. Some extremist leader to whip them into frenzy, and Palestinians have always been quite comfortable being extremists, hence why most Muslim countries do not want to take them in. But, first, destroy Hamas, then worry about what comes next.
Looking towards Israel’s northern border, Netanyahu told Kaufman that before his assassination, Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah “was literally taking over the command of the military actions. But the thing that startled me was that I realized he was the axis of the axis, replacing [Qassem] Soleimani.”
He later said that Iran “has no supply line,” saying the Islamic Republic spent billions of dollars on Syria, Hezbollah, and Hamas. “We warned Assad not to let Iran supply Hezbollah with weapons through Syria. He played dumb,” he added. “I don’t know if we killed anyone, but we certainly smashed the weaponry of the Syrian army,” he said regarding the Israeli bombing of Syria’s chemical weapons facilities. “We don’t want all the stuff the Syrians amassed falling into the hands of the jihadists.”
That’s another area that should be fun for a few years.
Let’s tell the truth here: there can be no peace, nor will there be any peace, while Hamas and the other Palestinian irredentists continue to exist. They will continue to attack Israel, in ways big and small, because violence and savagery are all that they know.
After Germany and Japan were defeated, we occupied those countries, and ferreted out and eliminated all of the Japanese militarists and Nazis. We left two countries which could be counted on for peace because we had eliminated the people who wanted to keep fighting and who could keep fighting.
Israel gave Hamas 50 years to grow up and be civil. It isn’t happening. I dont blame Israel for taking the hard line.