Well, that didn\’t take long. The Israel/hamas “truce” is over.
How long did it last? Well, if the “truce” were a typical Yankee game (i.e. about 3 hours), it wouldn\’t have made it to the 7th inning stretch.
What has to be understood here is that hamas does not want peace. hamas does not want its citizens safe. And, other than when its offensive weapons are depleted, thus it needs time to re-stock, hamas does not want any truce.
The more dead Palestinian Arabs, the better for them. Because dead Palestinian Arabs – women and children are the best for their purposes – the more the world will look at the relative body counts in Gaza and Israel, and conclude that Israelis rather than hamas terrorists are responsible.
That is why, unlike Israel, hamas does not provide warning sirens, or bomb shelters, why it makes a point of putting its launching sites at or near schools, hospitals and mosques, and why the basements of those places are almost always where the tunnels into Israel begin.
It is also why hamas tells its citizens to ignore Israel\’s warnings of where bombings will take place, insisting that they stay right where they are.
Simply stated, the hamas strategy is, the more Palestinian Arab corpses, the better. And, to a major extent it is working – even in countries that damn well know better and would recognize this for what it is if the ethnic makeup of Israel were different (yes, anti-Semitism doesn\’t hurt the hamas cause a bit either).
Israel\’s former Prime Minister, Golda Meir, famously said that “there will be peace when Arabs love their children more than they hate us.”
Never was the wisdom of that statement more true.
