No Peace Possible

Israel should not accept a truce with Hamas even if the terrorist group publicly accepts the terms because the Islamic guerrillas will only use it to rearm and recuperate. There are, of course, deep and justified concerns on Israel's part that refusing any pretense of a truce will invoke the wrath of the international community and engender sanctions against the Jewish state, but Israel's primary objective now must be the elimination of any Hamas capacity to mount attacks against her. If the perception is allowed to exist that Hamas defeated Israel by surviving and maintaining a military capacity, Hamas may soon overwhelm the forces of Abbas in the West Bank and pose an ever greater threat to the Jews and a larger stumbling block to any prospect of even achieving the patina of peace which might be approached with the Palestinian Authority under Abu Mazen but which ultimately will never bring peace either as the vast body politic of the Palestinian people, their Arab brothers, and Muslims in general will never allow peaceful co-existence with such an alien entity to their way of thinking as a Jewish state smack in the middle of the Ummah. The peace process is a chimera made of whole cloth and moonshine. It is all process, Israeli territorial concession but no peace and never peace and no prospect ever of peace. Would you want to be on a train running perfectly on schedule but about to drop off a cliff?