Israel: What do we need to do or give you to help you become a peaceful, prosperous neighbour?
PA: Land.
Israel: You already have Judea and Samaria, the heartland of the Jewish people.
PA: We want more.
Israel: How about we give you the Gaza Strip? There are thousands of greenhouses. All the infrastructure is already in place. The beaches are beautiful. It could be a new Monaco or Singapore.
PA: OK
Israel: Hang on. You are still attacking us.
Hamas: Yes.
Israel: But what about peace?
Hamas: There will be peace when you are all dead.
Israel: That really doesn’t work for us.
UN: Can’t you at least meet them half-way?
Hamas: Sends thousands of bombs and rockets at schools, hospitals, shopping centres.
Israel: Please don’t do that.
Hamas: We will only stop when you are all dead. And not just you, every Jew everywhere.
Hamas: Attacks through massive tunnel network. Kills young people at music festival, burns children to death, kidnaps, tortures, rapes, murders entire families.
Israel: You have passed the line of hate and aggression we can tolerate. Hamas has to go.
Hamas: Hey, you’re not supposed to fight back. That’s racist!
Hamas: Let’s have a ceasefire. We only want peace.
Israel: Will you keep the ceasefire?
Hamas: Yes
Israel: You didn’t keep the ceasefire.
Hamas We meant we will keep the ceasefire once you are all dead. But you have to stop fighting back. It’s not fair.
In no other war, ever, has any state tolerated for so long the relentless attacks of an enemy sworn to its destruction. In no other war ever has any state taken so much care to avoid civilian casualties. In no other war ever has any state continued to provide medical care, water, and food to a group determined to destroy it and murder its people.
Why Israel is winning, and the people of Gaza will be better off when they do.
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