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Israel’s Scorched Earth Response is Exactly What Hamas Intended
Let’s start by stating the obvious: Hamas is a brutal terrorist organization and its attack on Israeli civilians last week is inhumane and barbaric.
Now to the uncomfortable part.
Just as Osama bin Laden planned for and celebrated the United States’ overreaction to the 9/11/01 terror attacks, Israel may be getting sucked into Hamas’ invitation to further destabilize the Middle East by engaging in its own acts of inhumanity and barbarism.
Terrorists thrive on violence. Their goal is to instill fear and upset the established order.
Just as then-president George W. Bush was warned bin Laden was determined to strike within the United States and decided to ignore it and continue the longest vacation in presidential history because it would ultimately provide the pretext Bush needed to invade Iraq, the Israeli government had been waiting for its own pretext to rid Palestinians from Gaza.
The problem is, Hamas is not Palestine.
It is an extremist group that distorts Islam to exact a political agenda of intimidation and fear.
Yet, in a classic example of punishing the many for the sins of the few, over a million Palestinian citizens are fleeing their homes after being held responsible for the…
