“You don’t make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.”
That aphorism, attributed to former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, has always struck me as more hopeful than convincing.
Americans didn’t make peace with the Nazis. We made peace with those we permitted to hold power in Germany after we decisively defeated the Nazis.
Today, there is no conceivable way that Israel can make peace with Hamas, a military wing of the Muslim Brotherhood and a Tehran-backed terrorist organization committed to jihad, the annihilation of Israel and the genocide of Israelis.
Since Hamas’ invasion of Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, its strategy has been Leninist: “The worse, the better,” meaning the more that Gaza Strip residents suffered, the worse it would be for Israel and the better for Hamas.
The terrorists understood the animus toward Israel of United Nations officials, faux human rights organizations, leftists in the media and radical activists on campuses.
Hamas gave Gaza residents a choice: “Conquest or martyrdom!” Those preferring a third option were out of luck.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, has long been Hamas’ most important backer.
He sees himself as a revolutionary and a jihadi. He claims to be the “deputy” on earth to Imam Muhammad al-Mahdi, a messianic figure in Shiite Islam.
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Author: Ruth King
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