MEF on the Israel-Gaza War
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a research group associated with the Syrian opposition, this week reported that 700 pro-Iranian fighters have been deployed in the area adjoining the Golan Heights. The fighters, according to the SOHR report, are of "Syrian, Iraqi, Palestinian, and other nationalities."

The Turkish government's Religious Affairs Directorate, or Diyanet, a multi-billion dollar organization with nearly 150,000 personnel overseeing approximately 90,000 mosques in Turkey and abroad, has aligned itself with Hamas. It appears to have adopted a policy that reflects an anti-Israel religious fatwa issued by top MB clerics and their Palestinian affiliates.

Defeating Hamas was pronounced as Israel's primary goal of the war it now wages in the Gaza Strip because of its importance to the security and safety of millions of Israelis, for regional stability and to impress on Israel's enemies that the Jewish State can win again, and no site or target is off the table.

Three hundred thousand protesters, many of them wearing face-hiding masks and Hamas-style headbands marched through London on Armistice Day on Saturday, November 11. It was the city's biggest demonstration since protests against the Allied invasion of Iraq in 2003.

"Everything changed" in Israel on Oct. 7. Except it did not. Despite much talk of victory by the prime minister and survey research showing the public endorses a tough new approach, Israeli officialdom and its security establishment show signs of reverting to their old failed policies, even before the bodies have been buried. Those failed policies mean...

Many of the numerous people, organizations, and governments who regularly rely on the OCHA-OPT are unaware of how much misinformation they report. By cooperating with Hamas, the OCHA-OPT helps perpetuate the rule of a terrorist state, the oppression of Palestinians, and the murder of Israelis.

The military situation is only one of a number of ticking clocks that Israeli policymakers must consider – and these clocks are not ticking in sync with one another. The IDF is set to soon find itself in a race against time to effectively collapse and obliterate the authority that perpetrated the 7 October massacre.

An FWI investigation has uncovered over 260 million dollars sent through the 501(c) system to Hamas-aligned charities in the United States, provided by corporate foundations, employee-giving schemes, partisan community groups and a powerful array of Islamist grant-making foundations that make use of a largely-unregulated nonprofit sector.

Rather than placing the blame on the Arabs for the 1920 massacre, the world sought to make excuses and appease them when the British Mandatory powers made al-Husseini the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, despite his being clearly and legally implicated in the bloodshed.

The shocking and horrific Hamas attack on Israelis on October 7 – the mass murder, rape, abductions, torture, and mutilation – was a paradigm-shifting event. Israel's war in response is a starkly black-and-white conflict. Yet J Street, the lobbying group that advertises itself as "pro-Israel" and "pro-peace," has not seen it that way.

The IDF operation in the West Bank raises questions about the opening of a third front in Israel's response to Hamas' multipronged attack against the Jewish state on Oct. 7, resulting in the massacre of 1,400 people in southern Israel.

There are many parallels between Sri Lanka's decades-long fight against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelan (LTTE), more commonly known as the "Tamil Tigers," and Israel's decades-long fight against the Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya, more commonly known as Hamas. And while Hamas may be now stronger than ever, the Tamil Tigers are only a memory.

Just two weeks after Hamas terrorists stormed Israeli neighborhoods, massacring families in their homes and parading bloodied hostages through the streets of Gaza, an anti-Semitic hate group with multiple documented links to Hamas visited U.S. Congress members during its annual "Palestine Advocacy Days."

Hamas, the jihadi organization that has ruled Gaza since 2007, became the focus of global attention after massacring about 1,400 Israelis on Oct. 7. For 15 years, it has implemented an opposite and historically unique purpose in tormenting its subject population. Rather than sacrifice soldiers for battlefield gains, it sacrifices civilians for public relations purposes.

After a period of doubt as IDF troops idled on the Gaza border for weeks, Israel's government has shown a serious commitment to the ground invasion of the Hamas-run enclave. Three divisions are inside the northern half of the Gaza Strip, cutting the territory in half and making steady progress toward the heart of Gaza City.

As Israel continues to respond with force to the heinous October 7th attack perpetrated by Hamas terrorists who raped young women, kidnapped children, and burned families alive, TV journalists try to demonstrate their objectivity by soliciting responses from leaders of CAIR, an organization with deep and enduring ties to Hamas.

The U.K.-based Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) wrote in its 123-page report released Monday, that "at least 14 teachers and staff at UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees) schools have publicly celebrated the October 7 massacre and other Hamas attacks on their social media accounts."

While their people languish in poverty and are treated as human shields, the leaders of Hamas live billionaire lifestyles. The terror group's three top leaders alone are worth a staggering total of $11 billion and enjoy a life of luxury in the sanctuary of the emirate of Qatar.

What is this strange evil that afflicts the West and for which the war in Gaza is both a pretext and a revelation? Hamas is an Islamo-Nazi sect that intended to destroy Israel and its people before attacking the West when the time comes. Support for Hamas originates in the heart of darkness of Western consciousness. There are more fans of Hamas in the West than in Gaza.

We must wake up and complete the construction of the Iron Wall—a victory over Israel's enemies, such a victory that will make them lay down their weapons and stop hoping to throw us to the sea. To understand the simple truth that only with strength can we guarantee ourselves security.

The usual angry critics and opponents of Israel are demanding a ceasefire as Israel responds to Hamas' Oct. 7 pogrom. A ceasefire would give Hamas and its patron Iran a huge victory. It would be a strategic defeat for Israel, as it would reveal it to be a paper tiger unworthy of respect or even concern.

An all-out armoured and infantry assault on Gaza, with the intention of rapidly destroying Hamas rule, would almost certainly have the effect of ending these contacts and consigning the Israeli hos­tages to death, or a fate worse than death. The war initiated by Hamas on October 7 is far from over and may well not yet have reached its height.

Is the US-designated terrorist group Hamas active in the United States? Of course it is, as it has been since the early 1990s, albeit limiting its activities mainly to influencing the media and therefore government policy toward Israel, and potentially still illegally fundraising in ways the FBI has not yet uncovered.

Exactly 100 years ago, in his seminal essay, "The Iron Wall," revisionist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky wrote these words: "As long as the Arabs feel that there is the least hope of getting rid of us, they will refuse to give up this hope in return for either kind words or for bread and butter." Only an Iron Wall can achieve peace and security for Israel. It is time to build it.

Many Americans were surprised by the protests on college campuses in support of "Palestine" after the Hamas assault on Israel. How could anyone but condemn the Hamas pogrom, in which babies, children, and the elderly were massacred, raped, and burned alive? The answer lies in the toxic mix of politics, ignorance, and antisemitism emanating from the failure of American academia, especially the field of Middle East studies.

The more than 1,400 Israelis who were brutally slaughtered by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, got what they deserve— according to the most prestigious university of the Muslim world, Al Azhar, located in Cairo. It has all but just decreed that no Israeli — by Muslim definition an "occupier" — is a civilian, that all are enemy combatants, to be treated just as they were on Oct. 7.

The Hamas terrorist attack was launched at the behest of the Iranian regime to obstruct the normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia and consequently the entire Arab and Islamic worlds. Tehran has taken the Arabs and the wider Islamic world hostage, not allowing them to lead a peaceful life. It has other plans.

Ever since the Hamas assault against Israel on October 7, cities and universities throughout the nation (and beyond) have erupted in what most of the media insists on calling "pro-Palestine rallies." But they really are at best "anti-Israel rallies." Many of them are outright "pro-Hamas" rallies.

The Hamas assault on Israeli communities in south west Israel changed the Middle East strategic picture with a single stroke. What will happen next cannot be precisely predicted. What may be stated with confidence is that the war which commenced with the Hamas attacks of October 7 is far from over and there is much suffering yet to come.

Palestinian leaders have repeatedly made crystal clear that they will never accept a two-state solution. The Arabs opposed partition in the 1930's, and they oppose it still. The truth is that Israel must defeat its enemies or be defeated. It must, yet again, discredit the old Qur'anic lie about Jews loving life too much to fight.

I too oppose the bombardment, but I'm talking about the non-stop bombardment of readers with false information in the media about Israel's war against Hamas, especially in The New York Times. Theirs is an obsessive attempt to influence America's foreign policy and mob opinion on the ground.

American universities receive massive sums of money from countries that openly support Hamas and terrorism more broadly, and we know very little about what these countries are getting for their money. We need transparency about these transactions. Fortunately, the House Education and Workforce Committee has rolled out legislation, months in formation, to help address this problem.

Allegations of recurring United Nations anti-Israel activity, including accusations that United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres seemed to rationalize Hamas' murder of 1,400 people — illustrate the world body's obsession with the Jewish state. On Friday, the United Nations General Assembly failed to condemn Hamas in a non-binding resolution.

Urban warfare offers endless advantages to the defender, and comes at a massive cost to both soldiers and civilians, but the IDF might have no choice. Hamas has prepared for this fight for years, but so has Israel. It will be a test of skill, technology, tactics and leadership, but like all wars, it will be primarily a test of willpower.

The rules of war President Biden referenced are something known as "International Humanitarian Law" (IHL). The core of IHL is the Geneva Conventions. In contrast to IHL rules, Islamic law allows any men – combatants or not – who are taken prisoner to be killed, and it considers enemy prisoners, whether men, women or children, to be slaves who can be bought and sold.

The war between Israel and Hamas launched by the Hamas massacre of October 7 appears currently to be in a kind of holding pattern, as the current focus appears to be on the hostages taken by Hamas on October 7, and efforts to secure their release. The tiny, gas-rich emirate of Qatar is, according to a number of reports, playing a key role in these efforts.

U.S. firms must divest from Qatar (and all states that support Hamas) and stop doing business with Qatar. U.S. authorities should freeze all Qatari assets in American financial markets. Anything less signals a willingness to do indirect business with the murderers of Hamas.

There are many verses in the Qur'an which speak disparagingly of Jews and incite contempt for them. To look at the Jews through the frame of the Qur'an is to see them as contemptible, weak, cowardly-yet-warmongering, treacherous losers. This stereotype offers a very poor basis indeed for Muslims to engage in a lasting quest for peace with the Jewish state.

Islamists in Europe have overwhelmingly come out in support of Hamas's October 7 brutal massacre of more than 1,400 Israelis. That support has been expressed in different ways: explicitly approving of Hamas's murder, rape and abduction of Israeli civilians; justifying the crimes by blaming Israel; and by remaining silent and refusing to condemn Hamas publicly.

Jew hatred in our universities rests on two updated academic theories: Marxist-Leninist "postcolonial theory" and critical race theory. Postcolonial theory rightly states that imperial conquest and colonial occupation has a major deleterious effect on the indigenous population. But then, quite oddly, asserts that all worldly problems are due to European imperialism and only European imperialism.

Almost three weeks after the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, Hamas is still alive and kicking. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his vaunted war cabinet still have no significant military achievements in the same time it took for Israel to defeat Syria and Egypt in the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

From Lebanon to Yemen, via Syria and Iraq, the Iran-led regional axis of which Hamas is only a minor element is moving into position. It is the fruit of the methodology and the investments of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps during the past four decades in the Middle East.

"Occupation" is a term meant to delegitimize Israel. It implies that Israel is an alien military force occupying the region. From an Islamist perspective, it is in reality the non-Islamic character of Israel that makes this illegitimate. It is not military occupation in itself that is today's sticking point, but the fact that Israel is a non-Muslim, Jewish-majority state.

The idea of Israel attaining victory over the Palestinians went from the margins to the mainstream, from peripheral to consensual. Politicians and polls both support this idea. Israelis seem to be a transformed people. But are they?

The word "Palestine" comes originally from the name of the Philistines of the Old Testament and ancient inscriptions. The Philistines were a people, probably related to the Greeks, who are sometimes referred to as "Sea Peoples." Like so many other ancient peoples, the Philistines eventually lost their distinct ethic identity, and disappeared from the pages of history around 2,500 years ago.

It can be offensive, and even deeply hurtful to Muslims, to draw attention to the victimhood of others. Why is that so? Why this widespread, competitive victimhood? Those who are not familiar with the foundational texts of Islam may not be aware of how deeply a sense of Muslim victimhood runs through these texts, and how Muslim victimhood trumps all other victimhood.

Hamas's massacre of 1,400 people in Israel on October 7 has catapulted the alleged state-sponsor of terrorism Qatar and its ownership of the Maybourne hotel in Beverly Hills into the spotlight for the oil-rich nation's role in financing the jihadi terror movement that rules over the Gaza Strip.

Israeli leaders have said in no uncertain terms that this war will only end when Hamas no longer runs the Gaza Strip. IDF commanders are reportedly champing at the bit, leaking to journalists that a ground invasion has to begin soon.

In the wake of Hamas's terrorist attacks on Israel on October 7, the Islamic Great East Raiders Front (İslami Büyük Doğu Akıncıları Cephesi, IBDA-C), a militant Turkish jihadist organization that openly endorses al-Qaeda ideology, has targeted the Jewish community in Turkey and called for NATO bases in Turkey to be closed.

Nine days before Hamas murdered and raped its way through kibbutzim in southern Israel and brought almost 200 hostages back into Gaza, officials from the Department of Homeland Security hosted a White House roundtable with five prominent Islamist organizations in the United States, three of which have promoted pro-Hamas propaganda after the October 7 attack.

The Hamas Charter asserts that once land has been conquered and occupied by Islam, it belongs eternally as a waqf ('perpetual trust') for Muslims. For this reason, the Charter states that Palestine is "consecrated for future Muslim generations until Judgement Day." As a Hamas spokesman recently declared, "It's all ours."

Islamist organizations in the U.S. expressed their support for Hamas's slaughter of Israelis within hours of the attacks. Nihad Awad, co-founder and executive director of CAIR, tweeted in Arabic, "All Arab peoples must go out on Sunday, October 8, and every day, in demonstrations in support of the Palestinians and in rejection of normalization with the occupier and the apartheid regime."

Footage of participants at an October 9 anti-Israel rally outside the Sydney Opera House chanting "Gas the Jews," "F**k the Jews," and "Allahu Akbar" sent shockwaves around the globe, revealing a troubling side of Australia, a nation not previously known for having widespread and public issues stemming from Islamist antisemitism.

Recent events should serve as a belated alarm call to Israel and its allies about the new multipolar world – and about the nature, dimensions and existential seriousness of the Iranian and Islamist project that forms this new geopolitical landscape in the Middle East and beyond.

Hamas, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, was founded in 1988. It is one of two parties in power among Palestinians, the other being Fatah. Hamas rules in Gaza, while Fatah rules in the West Bank. They are both radical Islamist movements. Hamas's goal, laid out in its Charter, is to implement Islam fully and strictly.

Iran now possesses a contiguous area of control stretching from Syria's Quneitra Province adjoining the Golan Heights, across southern Syria and into Iraq. Should one of the infiltrating groups in the North get through, or shell a major target and cause considerable loss of life, Israel might find itself impelled to carry out a major response, with all that this would imply.

Hamas was encouraged by shifting Israeli national priorities that led its security planners to rely heavily on electronic surveillance and remote-controlled weapons at the expense of boots on the ground and the human eye. Hamas's threats to destroy Israel have never been a secret; they have been written openly at the heart of its covenant.

The Qatar state-owned network Al Jazeera is facing intense criticism that it is assisting the Hamas terrorist movement in its war against the Jewish state, prompting the government to declare that Al Jazeera's operation will be outlawed in Israel for transmitting "sensitive information to our enemies." When asked about a ban on Al Jazeera and two...

The sad truth of the matter is that two formal U.S. allies, Turkey and Qatar, are, apart from Iran, the most important state sponsors of Hamas in the world. U.S. diplomats, military officials, Congress, and the White House should reorient our policies accordingly and use U.S. leverage to cause our "frenemies" to change course.

In the following interview, an individual called Mazen (his first name, though I have omitted his full name for his own security), who resides in the primarily Druze province of al-Suwayda' in southern Syria and is a member of a local faction there opposed to the Syrian government, expresses an opinion going against popular Arab consensus.

Amid a growing divergence with the Islamist government of President Erdoğan, the US has been intent on sidelining Turkey from significant global and regional events. During diplomatic efforts by the US to broker a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken did not visit Ankara while touring capitals in the Middle East.

Israel is the only country in the world that is never allowed to win a war. Whenever Israel begins to win, it is told to stop. That is because the proportionality obsessives know Israel can't be defeated by Hamas, so they try to ensure that Israel doesn't defeat Hamas.

The Biden administration must step up pressure on Iran with financial sanctions, diplomatic isolation, an expanded U.S. military footprint in the region, increased defense support for allies, and cyber operations against Tehran's terror network.

It's possible for a decent Gaza-led administration to emerge, which could make autonomy and even statehood possible. On seizing control of Gaza, Israel can reasonably expect to find plenty of residents ready to work with the new authority to create an administration that could return them to normal life.

Accepting the inadvertent killing of civilians is more logical when one is defending their home—which is what Israel is doing—as opposed to when one is trying to conquer the homes of others—which is what the prophet of Islam and over a millennium of jihadist leaders (or terrorists) did.

The question Israel will have to face if it does indeed dismantle Hamas as an organization is who runs the Strip now? That difficult question will have to be answered by Prime Minister Netanyahu's war cabinet. Until then, the IDF must show that it knows how to design a campaign that brings about its ambitious war aims.

The supreme religious leader of Turkey's Iran-backed Hizbullah, Edip Gümüş, an ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Islamist government, has recently made a public call for a global jihad against Israel, leading to concerns about the safety of Jewish communities both within and without Turkey.

This is not a war which can be resolved through a negotiated settlement. Hamas has shown the world, in its own bloody way, that this is a war to destroy Israel together with its people. Israel does have the right to defend itself. It now has no choice but to make this a war to completely uproot and destroy Hamas.

As Israel readies for an invasion of Gaza, the IDF will be met with drones, anti-tank weapons, and a barrage of rockets. Hamas will continue to use civilians as human shields, and Israel will continue to conduct its operations against a diplomatic stopwatch.

The events of October 7 and the larger fight now brewing in its wake will be an episode in a broader contest between Iran and its proxies and efforts by Israel, the UAE, the Saudi crown prince, and others to promote a diametrically opposed vision of the region that places commerce and peaceful economic and societal development, alongside respect for tradition, at the heart of its project.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has ramped up his anti-Israel rhetoric over the past several days, lamenting that "our brothers in the Gaza strip" are being bombed and claiming Israel is "acting like [a terrorist organization]" rather than a state.

In the wake of a brutal terrorist attack on Israel, members of the ultra left-wing "Squad" in the U.S. House released public statements calling for a "ceasefire" in Israel. Despite strong condemnatory evidence, Omar and Tlaib continue to champion CAIR. Their patronage provides the Hamas lobby with an alarming foothold in U.S. Congress.

Turkey, an ally of the United States and a member of NATO, has conducted itself appallingly in the aftermath of Hamas's terroristic, genocidal invasion of Israel this past weekend. The United States should leverage all of its political, military and economic capability to bring Turkey in line.

The Hamas offensive against the Israeli communities surrounding Gaza is a pivotal moment in a war that has been going on for some years. It's a mistake to see this as another chapter in the long and interminable 'Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel, both state and society, is facing one of its greatest challenges since its establishment.

Following the bloodiest day in Jewish history since the Holocaust, Islamists across the United States are refusing to condemn the Hamas perpetrators. Instead, they are announcing unequivocal support for Palestine, regardless of Hamas's control over its leadership.

A surge in antisemitism in Turkey, set against the backdrop of Hamas's terrorist attacks in Israel and the Israeli military's retaliation against targets in Gaza, has been exacerbated by officials in the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and its allies.

This is a paradigm-shifting moment. After previous Hamas attacks, Israel has responded with aerial bombardment of targets in Gaza or, at most, limited ground incursions. Israel has followed this framework since Hamas took power in Gaza in 2007. But after these new atrocities, this framework can no longer stand.

Hamas's rule is underwritten to a large extent by Qatar, the tiny, oil-rich sheikhdom in the Persian Gulf, among others. Congress should persuade the administration to designate Qatar as a state sponsor of terrorism, as well as pressure the Qatari government to extradite Hamas commanders to face justice.

President Joe Biden declared, "In this moment, we must be crystal clear. We stand with Israel" and referred to Hamas's terrorist assault as "pure, unadulterated evil." Congress should go even further than this and pass a resolution calling for the dismantlement of Hamas.

'This is our generation's Yom Kippur,' one of the tank crewmen told us, standing on the hull of his vehicle. 'We haven't even begun to understand the implications of this.' Yom Kippur is Israeli shorthand for the massive intelligence and conceptual failure which led to Israel being taken by surprise by the armies of Egypt and Syria on that day 50 years ago, in 1973.

Left-wing feminists demonstrate in favor of Hamas, ignoring the real issues facing women in Gaza, including child marriage, forced veiling, and honor crimes. Little wonder: most women do not automatically embrace freedom and truth any more than most men do.

Intense expert debates over whether Israel will launch full-scale war against Iran's main strategic ally, Hezbollah, is underway amid the Lebanese terrorist entity's aerial incursions into Israel. The US military sent additional naval groups to the Eastern Mediterranean, including the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford.

Amidst rape outrages, at least dozens taken hostage, hundreds dead and thousands wounded in Israel, numerous anti-Israel academics in Middle East studies have opened a second Twitter/X front in the terrorist war against the Jewish state. A battle for public opinion often heavily stacked against Israel seeks to constrain the environment in which it can maneuver.

Joseph Massad is excited about what he calls "the Palestinian war of liberation." He is ecstatic over the "shocking success" of "the Palestinian resistance." He is a ghoulish anti-Semite who is absolutely elated at the "astounding," "striking," "awesome," and "innovative" "victories of the resistance."

In revolutionary logic, the ends often justify the means, and violence against a perceived oppressor is not only permissible but heroic. For 75 years, the Israel-Palestinian conflict has been interpreted in just such ways—by Arab nationalists, by Islamic fundamentalists, and by Western revolutionaries.

Pro-Erdoğan daily newspaper Yeni Şafak wrote that the "terror state Israel is targeting civilians." Another pro-Erdoğan daily, Star, tagged the entire spiral of violence "Israeli oppression." This evidence and much more shows the fanatical anti-Israeli legacy of Erdoğan has "successfully" poisoned an already xenophobic society; it will probably take generations to clean up.

Officials of Gazan charities funded by British and American Islamist groups, and even the U.S. government, have expressed support for the Hamas operation killing and kidnapping Israelis. Operating with impunity for far too long, these incestuous radical networks of Islamist charities serve as the fundraising arms of Hamas terror.

Israeli leaders believed that the border fence with Gaza, an NIS 3.5 billion ($1.1 billion) project that took over three years to complete, would provide a defensive shield around its citizens on the border. As videos of the calamity on Saturday made painfully clear, the fence did next to nothing to stop the invasion.

The Middle East is not a place for do-gooders and much less for that virus installed in the West under the false name of Wokeism. The unpreparedness for this attack is rooted in the accelerated "westernization" of the Israeli people. By "westernization," I mean its latest cultural manifestation, the woke mentality.

"Free Palestine"—the slogan, the fantasy, and the policy—has always consciously implied the mass murder of Jews in their towns, streets, shops, and living rooms. To the Arabs of my own generation, I say it's time to confront the darker corners of our ideological heritage, and question the ideas and beliefs we may have uncritically absorbed.

Across the Western world, Islamist activists do not only support the designated terrorist group Hamas from afar, but have embraced Hamas leaders in person. This live document, updated with new examples as we gather them, will serve to document such instances.

The leaders of the French National Rally party, Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella, in a sharp turn that could change the pattern of politics in France, have issued separate statements of support for Israel in the wake of the Hamas terrorist onslaught. The entire political class is doing it, including the socialists and the ecologists.

The Islamic Republic of Iran is the driving force in the war launched Saturday against the Jewish state. The $6 billion in unfrozen sanctioned money that was sent to Iran via Qatar's financial system is fungible money and can be used to fund Hamas, PIJ and Hezbollah.

In the tumultuous wake of an unprecedented attack on Israel by Hamas forces from Gaza, a defining moment has arisen for United States foreign policy. The escalation of violence prompts the consideration of stringent policy measures aimed at curbing the Islamist organization's aggression and restoring stability in the region.

Hamas's surprise attack is a strategic opportunity for Israel, the U.S. and democracies everywhere. The Hamas charter of 1988 calls for Islam to "obliterate" Israel. After this vicious assault, the time has come for Israel to obliterate Hamas.

Just a day after Iran-backed Hamas terrorists slaughtered and kidnapped Israeli civilians, Iranian Islamists in the United Kingdom are organizing an event, at a venue in London controlled by a British Hamas network, featuring pro-Hamas voices, including a prominent American Islamist leader.

The current situation is not just an act of terrorism: it is an invasion, an orchestrated massacre gleaming with the sinister glare of genocidal intent. The re-occupation of the Gaza Strip emerges not as a choice but an imperative. Hamas and Islamic Jihad, entities nurtured by an unquenchable thirst for Israeli destruction, must be eradicated.