Hamas: Run or Die (how about both?)
MSNBC is running the headline “New Hamas Leader Takes Harder Line“. I’m not sure what a harder line he could take, since the previous leader advocated an Islamic state and the execution of all Jews in the Middle East. Call me a softy, but that sounds like a pretty damned hard line to me. After all, it’s not like there was ever a line that Hamas refused to cross. They killed children in a pizza restaurant, families sitting down to Seder, teenagers at a disco. They sent out a mother to blow herself up and leave behind orphans. In fact the one group that they rarely attacked were the soldiers and police who could fight back.
So the Hamas founder gets himself splattered in Gaza, and the new leader wants to take a harder line. Killing innocent children is the hardest line you can take in my opinion, and there is nowhere left to go. The Israelis know this, and that’s why they aren’t afraid of Hamas anymore. Hamas has played all of its cards – there is nothing left. Now Israel holds the cards and are the ones to decide what line to cross. And there is nothing – absolutely nothing that Hamas can do about it but run or die. For the sake of the murdered innocents, I hope that it is the latter.