(NY Daily News) - Israel - its patience and forbearance shattered, along with the lives of 22 innocents aboard a Jerusalem bus last month - is now at war with Hamas. Total war. All-out war. War to the bitter end. Hamas seeks Israel's destruction, but it is the terrorist group that must be destroyed. Six Israeli air strikes in two weeks have efficiently exterminated 11 key Hamas plotters. Now their comrades are in wild disarray, running for deep cover, knowing full well that any one of them could be next on Israel's dispatch list. Unlike the mass murder perpetrated by Hamas - bombing buses, stores and restaurants, seeking to maximize the number of soft casualties, like children - Israel has been zeroing in on the killers themselves. Accordingly, the number of bystanders killed has been kept to an absolute minimum. This is what is meant by a surgical strike. Notice that the usual bash-Israel crowd, like the Europeans and the UN, even the Arab states, is quiet. That's because Israel is performing a service to the civilized world - ridding it of monsters who revel in death.
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