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The Road To Ceasefire

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…lies through the Rafah offensive.

The military strategy for Hamas’ October 7 attack was to create the largest scale of atrocity possible and survive Israel’s counterattack. Then, having survived, it intended to build up for many more October 7 attacks, all with the aim of achieving its grand strategic goal: the destruction of Israel and the death of the Jewish people.

Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas political leader, stated as much, saying, “Israel is a country that has no place on our land. We must remove that country … the Al-Aqsa Flood is just the first time, and there will be a second, third, and fourth. Will we pay a price? Yes, and we are ready to pay it.”

Hamas’s hope is that repeated attacks like October 7 will eventually break the will of the Israeli population. To do that, Hamas would need to survive the war.

The solution is simple, then. Don’t allow them to survive the war.

15 thoughts on “The Road To Ceasefire”

  1. Why are we non-Muslims always required to submit to Muslim “sensitivities”? If they don’t want to fight during Ramadan, there’s an easy solution to that.

    Probably because it’s the same reason the so-called “peace activists” won’t call for a unilateral “ceasefire” from Hamas. Even though that would “end the killing”, wouldn’t it?

    Oh, that’s right. That’s also called “surrender.” And Muslims are forbidden to surrender to the infidel, especially to dogs, apes, and pigs.

  2. I often don’t see much hand wringing around the idea that Nazis leadership had to be exterminated from Nazi Germany at the end of WWII.

    There is some hand-wringing around the idea that the terms of Unconditional Surrender kept Japan in the war longer than it would have had surrender terms included the retention of the Japanese Emperor (under Allied US control). That eventually did happen. Either way the top Japanese military and government leadership would have still been hung.

    1. The Imperial Japanese Army had not spent the last 8 years killing only Jews. If they had, the cries for “understanding” them, today would be far louder. *All* anti-industrial reactions, however, come back to Jew-killing, sooner or later.

      They cannot stand the idea that anyone is free to build a network free from their hierarchies, and see the Jews as the primary examples of that, in the market networks Jews built when kicked out of landowning in so many places ruled by Muslims and Christians.

      1. “They cannot stand the idea that anyone is free to build a network free from their hierarchies…”

        Unless that network is build by Muslims…..

  3. The United States doesn’t realize how weak a hand it plays. Israel doesn’t need permission of the United State to finish this war to victory. The United States in its current executive embodiment is incapable of warfare and cannot impose force. Nor will Congress approve sanctions against Israel. I suppose the US Deep State could attempt to arm Hamas.

  5. Israel should quit the attack on Gaza when the Gazan people deliver up the crucified (or impaled, impaled works too) bodies of the HAMAS leadership

    1. Unlikely given the wide support for Hamas in Gaza.
      It’s religiously and culturally embedded.
      Ending Hamas will set back the anti-Israel aspirations perhaps decades, but it won’t stop them entirely.
      Then there’s Hezbollah…

      1. That’s why Gaza will have to be annexed and settled at least in part. Otherwise Hamas will just regenerate.

    2. I suspect a good number of Hamas leadership will end up under asylum in Iran. To eventually be droned off one by one or handed over en mass should the mullahs ever be overthrown by the Persians. I have the feeling however that if the latter ever happens, the remnants of Hamas leadership by then will be very old men.

        1. Hezbollah certainly doesn’t want Hamas trouble makers in Lebanon. Likely they will be shot there.

    1. That Quillette interview was fascinating, David. Here’s one of the quotes that struck me: “Look, Israel is the only country in the world where a well-educated, economically well-off, secular woman wants three children.” Interesting.

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