While it seems impossible for Hamas’ terror to worsen, it has. Having unleashed a genocidal terrorist attack on Israel two years ago, and still holding Israeli hostages, Hamas is now doing the same to Gaza. For Hamas, death has gone from being its perverted means to being its only end. Yet grotesque as Hamas’ terror has become, civilized nations are pushing to implicitly validate it.
On October 7, 2023, Hamas perpetrated an unquestionably genocidal attack on Israel, killing every Jew—man, woman, or child—it could; it committed atrocities; it took hostages; approaching two years later, it still holds those hostages.
Israel responded as would any nation whose citizens had been so attacked. In WWII, the Allies—such as Britain, France, and Canada—demanded nothing less than unconditional surrender and held trials for Axis war criminals. Israel is justified to demand nothing less from Hamas.
Over the almost two years, Hamas has not slackened its zeal for killing Israelis; only its means for doing so have been diminished. It still embeds its terrorists among civilians; it still fires rockets indiscriminately into civilian populations—both Israel’s (intentionally, as it has long done) and Gaza’s (presumably unintentionally); when it releases hostages, it only does so on terms heavily favorable to it; it steadfastly refuses to release all the hostages it holds.
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