[New Republic] Yossi Klein Halevi - The next Middle East war - Israel against genocidal Islamism - has begun. The first stage of the war started two weeks ago in response to the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier and the ongoing shelling of Israeli towns and kibbutzim from Gaza; now, with Hizballah's latest attack, the war has spread to southern Lebanon. The goals of the war should be the destruction of the Hamas regime and the dismantling of the Hizballah infrastructure in southern Lebanon. Israel cannot coexist with Iranian proxies pressing in on its borders. Allowing Hamas to remain in power - and to run the Palestinian educational system - will mean the end of hopes for Arab-Israeli reconciliation not only in this generation but in the next one too.
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