A Terrible and Unwarranted Delusion

Hamas is nothing but a befuddled, senseless movement, whose hope to destroy the State of Israel  is an empty dream and perhaps nothing short of a nightmare.  Resistance is one thing, and absurdity,  another.   Palestinians, both Hamas and Fatah, should be well-advised to accept whatever can be achieved today, for the reason that tomorrow might be too late.  The longer Hamas adheres to its uncompromising position, the more impossible it would be for it to achieve any objective, let alone the destruction of the State of Israel.  Already, the writing is on the wall, and Hamas is well advised to set its sights on the message that it has chosen to ignore.

If a thousand years of living in a land that began with conquests justifies efforts on the part of Palestinians  to claim it, two thousand years of the explulsion of Jews from the land of their birthright, must also be considered logically justifiable.  If American Indians were strong enough to reclaim their land, they would have justifiably done so, regardless of how the white European conquerers would have reacted to it.  It is obvious that  Moslems revere their ancestral beliefs and traditions to the exclusion of those outside the periphery of Islam.  While there are those among them who are familiar with the Old and New Testaments, the majority holds a jaundiced view of  the biblical contents therein, and the precise message of hope that some day, Jews must return to their homeland and the city of David (Jerusalem), restored in one piece, and not divided in any kind of peace treaty that the United Nations or others are trying to formulate.  It is absolutely irrational to think that Jerusalem could be the capital of two entities, or perhaps,  the capital of Palestine (ancient Philistine).  Could the Vatican be divided, or the city of Mecca for that matter?  

War is terrible.  Both soldiers and civilians get killed.  But if this remains as the one and only option, the status quo might lead to a war for another hundred years and might historically be labeled as “The Hundred Years War (Revisited)”