Israel and Hamas 'Agree Truce'

The BBC reports that "Israel and militant group Hamas have agreed to end months of bitter clashes with a six-month truce starting on Thursday, Palestinian officials say. A Hamas official said he was confident all militant groups in Gaza would abide by the agreement, brokered by Egypt." Militant group? I prefer genocidal Islamoterror group, as you well know.

All a truce does is allow Hamas to restock their weaponry, gather their rockets, build their bombs so that they can continue the fight to eliminate Israel. Does Israel not know its own history? Why does it refuse to learn from the past? Negotiatons with Islamoterrorists emboldens Islamoterrorists. This is a policy of weakness and defeat. How can Israel make a truce with Hamas when Gilad Shalit is still in captivity? Israel should unrelentingly crush Hamas with no mercy. Israel should not be ceasing fire until every Hamasite has either fled or is dead. Israel does not have a policy of victory over their genocidal terrorist enemy and that is the worst sort of madness. As Vice Premier Haim Ramon said on Tuesday in reaction to this news: "I am against a truce, because it is another triumph for radical Islam. It won in Lebanon and now it is about to win in Gaza. So what is the point of being moderate? Why would Hamas be interested in a resolution?" National Religious Party Knesset Member Zevulun Orlev called the agreement "a balloon that will burst" and called a ceasefire agreement without Gilad Schalit "a moral crime that conveys the message of abandoning the kidnapped soldier to his fate." Knesset Member Arye Eldad of the National Union/National Religious Party said that "because of a corrupt prime minister and an insecure defense minister Israel is capitulating to Hamas and accepting upon itself a ceasefire that will allow Hamas to hit Ashdod and Kiryat Gat later on. The residents of Israel will take note today of who is to blame when the entire center of the country turns into a war zone because of Olmert and Barak."

Arutz Sheva reports that IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi told the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Tuesday that in his estimate, the calm in Gaza will be "fragile and short. We have to make the most of the calm but prepare for an incursion. We are on a collision course." Israel has collided with its Arab enemies far too many times as it is. Will lasting action ever be taken?


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