Arab Fanaticism Needs No Reason

Editorial Cartoon by AF "Tony" Branco

PL Booth, Contributing Author: It makes no rational sense. Even as Gaza was blowing up all around it, Hamas fired rocket after rocket in the general direction of Israel, no matter how many hit or missed or went completely astray, even falling inside Gaza itself -- as many did. The rain of rockets, after kidnapping and killing three Israeli teenagers, led to the latest renewal of hostilities. Like the assinine Arab-Israeli conflict in general, this round of killings seems endless, the third time the Israelis entered Gaza to stop rockets from killing Israelis in the past decade. The latest 72-hour truce didn't last even 24 before Hamas broke it with more rockets.

Our incurably stupid secretary of state, JF Kerry, may be catching on at last. He issued a statement blistering Hamas for its latest outrage --  but didn't mention its Turkish, Qatari, and Iranian sponsors. He's still too stupid to distinguish the bad guys from the good in this latest crisis.

Even if another truce is cobbled together, it's likely to prove merely temporary. Hamas lives in a bloody world of its own making. The more Hamas and Gaza is hammered, the more insistent Hamas' claims of victory grow in the midst of its defeat. Guess it has to convince itself it's winning. No one else would be fool enough to believe such considering the available evidence, namely Gaza in ruins and Hamas that can't get its story straight. Oh wait; I forgot - Democrats!

Hamas rejected several offers of cease-fires. How many did the Israelis sign on to before this latest one was accepted -- four, five, counting temporary truces for humanitarian reasons? When Hamas finally accepted a temporary, 72-hour truce, it promptly violated it. Welcome to the Middle East, Mr. Secretary.

At one point Hamas did announce some war aims. For example, Hamas demanded an end to Israeli blockades of its coast and the checkpoints Israel and Egypt set up on Gaza's borders. That way, Hamas could still import still rockets without hindrance, not to mention other weapons.

Never mind that truckloads of essential supplies, like food and medicine, daily entered Gaza from Israel during its "occupation," which Israel formally ended when it left Gaza in 2005. Israel is reaping the bloody consequences being more engaged than ever after what was to be its "disengagement."

Lest we forget, the Israelis did agree to ease restrictions on what goods might enter Gaza -- like cement. Hamas argued that such supplies were needed to rebuild Gaza's economy and let its people have a normal life. And so, after considerable coaxing, Israel agreed. Only now, after Israeli troops began to destroy Hamas' vast network of tunnels into Israel, has it become clear where all those tons of cement went -- into an underground metropolis of tunnels complete with overhead lighting, telephone lines, rail lines and even holding cells for hostages Hamas fighters might take in the course of raids on Israeli towns and villages. Cells equipped with manacles and shackles to make sure hostages don't escape. One such tunnel even had an exit conveniently close to an Israeli kindergarten.

Nice people, these Arabs of Hamas. Think of all the schools, hospitals, highways and houses that cement could have been used to build in Gaza instead of this elaborate, multimillion-dollar network with no purpose other than to infiltrate Israel and kill Jews.

Now the tunnels have been exposed and Gaza is being systematically reduced to a smoking ruin, what is Hamas' strategy? None. Fanaticism doesn't need strategy nor reason for violence, however self-destructive. For ARABS violence is their reason for being. There's no method to the madness nor any more reason to kill  than any other plague has.

Hamas' diplomatic strategy has alienated every ally one after another, aligning itself with every cause in Arabdom that has failed. Hamas' headquarters used to be in Damascus and its host the equally ruthless Bashar al-Assad, son of a long line of Arab tyrants. Hamas bet on his fall, and lost. And now it's been expelled.

After being booted out of Syria, and ioffending Syria's great patron, the theocracy of Iran, Hamas next played its cards every way but right in Egypt where it fell  from power as its branch of the Muslim Brotherhood did. After the military coup there, its allies were locked up by the scores in Cairo.

Now Hamas is running out of Arab powers to offend, having long ago alienated Saudi Arabia and associated little oildoms like the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait though Qatar is still a sponsor, and maybe the USA. Turkey is re-entering an Islamist phase being revived under a demagogue and dictator who may yet return Turkey to the dark ages which is where Hamas still resides.

The USA should have no interests in Hamas, Gaza, nor any other Arab terrorist group, yet we continue to pour millions of dollars into their sand. Obama and the democrats are going to have hell to pay and the USA should not have to pay that price.
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PL Booth is a conservative writer and blogs at The Blue Eye View. He is a contributing author at the ARRA News Service.

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