(X) Victor Davis Hanson - During peace and on a holiday, between 1,500 and 2,500 gunmen of the Hamas death squads entered Israel in a long-planned hit operation to murder civilians and take captives, focusing specifically on butchering the most vulnerable and in the most grotesque fashion imaginable. Gaza is not anyone's "colony." It has been autonomous since 2006-7. No free Israeli Arab Muslim citizen would willingly emigrate there to live under the dictatorship of Hamas. Gaza has been the recipient of billions in cash from the Gulf monarchies, Europe, the U.S., and the UN. The more money came in, the less Hamas had any intention of using it to serve its people. Most of the gifted funds were used to build the world's largest subterranean city of death, to buy drones and rockets, and to pay gunmen to kill Jews. Essentially, Hamas is an enormous mafia-like, shakedown and hostage-taking operation that threatens the general peace, the moderate Arab nations, the Western democracies, and Israel with terrorist operations and kidnapping unless sufficiently bribed to behave. Only Hamas is deliberately targeting civilians. Hamas fires its rockets at Israeli civilians from hospitals, schools, UN facilities, and mosques. Hamas assumes that Israel fights wars more humanely than Hamas itself does, and so will try to avoid Hamas' Palestinian human shields. The writer is a historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
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