[Washington Times] Editorial - Israel has embarked upon a campaign to: 1) uproot the Palestinian terror networks that have embedded themselves in Gaza and the West Bank, with the active support of Iran and Syria; and 2) destabilize what Israel accurately terms a terrorist government run by Hamas, which has made Gaza a haven for jihadists much as Afghanistan was under Taliban rule. The campaign is in part meant to deal with the consequences that followed Israel's withdrawal from Gaza last summer, such as the complete collapse of security on the Gaza/Egypt border, which permitted terrorists and weapons to cross unimpeded. Given Israel's desire not to reoccupy Gaza permanently, it must re-examine establishing a zero-tolerance policy to deal with terrorist rocket attacks from Gaza. The U.S. would not tolerate terrorists firing rockets across the Mexican border at San Diego, and Israel cannot and should not accept any rocket firings at Sderot and Ashkelon. The Palestinians continue to refuse to permit their Jewish neighbors to live in peace. Ever since the ascendancy of Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti during the 1920s (who would later become a collaborator with Hitler's Final Solution), the Palestinians have had the wrong kind of leaders. Hamas, which responded to Israel's complete withdrawal from Gaza by stepping up rocket attacks on Israeli towns, behaves very much in the genocidal tradition of the Mufti.
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