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Source: https://www.thejc.com/opinion/leaders/with-a-genocidal-enemy-diplomacy-is-not-an-option-dcdsh67g
With a Genocidal Enemy, Diplomacy Is Not an Option
(Jewish Chronicle-UK) Editorial - For 17 months, the media breathlessly parroted Hamas casualty figures. Few news outlets ever questioned Hamas's miraculous ability to tally hundreds of deaths within minutes or to instantly determine which were civilians and which were "militants." Even when these reports do acknowledge the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, they usually omit the standard disclaimer that the numbers "could not be independently verified" - a caveat reserved almost exclusively for Israeli statements. Trust the terrorists and doubt the Middle East's only democracy. Then come the instant legal verdicts. Politicians and pundits rush to declare Israel's actions illegal, dispensing with the formality of waiting for the inevitable rubber-stamp ruling from a politicized international court. The belief that Hamas would ever relinquish all its hostages without pressure was always just wishful thinking. Hostages are the Gaza terrorists' last remaining assets. They will hold on to at least some unless forced otherwise. The biggest untruth of all is the delusion that diplomacy could actually resolve this conflict. Evil exists on a spectrum. The IRA, for all its bloodshed, never committed the barbarism Hamas unleashed on Oct. 7 or sought the destruction of Britain. It demanded territorial change, which made a political solution possible. Hamas, by contrast, is explicit in its genocidal intentions. So what's the diplomatic solution - meet them halfway? Given the UK's and Europe's newfound realism toward Russia, even with thousands of miles (and, in Britain's case, a waterway) between them and Russia, the governments of the UK and Europe hawkishly dismiss meek diplomacy in favor of war and military deterrence. These same governments, though, insist Israel abandon its military advantage against mortal threats right at its borders. They insist that for the Jewish state, war - let alone victory - is not the answer. Instead, Israel must be dragged back from the brink of victory and condemned to the purgatory of endless "diplomacy" and conflict. Israelis are united in understanding that Hamas must be eliminated.