HAMAS - THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

On January 7, 2006, I wrote a blog entitled ISRAEL'S FUTURE SURVIVAL AFTER SHARON, in which I stated that most Palestinians really did not want two states existing side by side, one Jewish and the other Palestinian. Instead, the Palestinians were comitted to the destruction of Israel, no matter how long it took.

Yesterday, the Palestinians held a much heralded election for their Parliament and it appears that Hamas won by a huge majority. Hamas is a terrorist organization which has claimed responsibility for many attacks against Israeli civilians. While Hamas based a good part of its campaign issues on cleaning up the corruption within the Palestinian Authority. it is absolutely opposed to peace with Israel and strongly advocates the destruction of the "Zionist entity". Hamas - thank you very much! You have proven my point about the Palestinian's goal of wiping Israel off the map.

This election should make it clear to the United Nations, the European Union, Russia, and the peace advocates in the U.S. State Department, that their touted "Road Map to Peace", with two states existing side by side, is for the Palestinians, like Islamists throughout the world, merely a temporary detour on the road to Israel's destruction. Hamas, with its victory in the election for Parliament, has demonstrated that a permanent peace treaty with Israel will be nothing more than an illusion.

Israel should now unilaterally proceed to draw up a militarily secure boundary which will include a portion of the West Bank, including all of the well-established settlements, and all of Jerusalem. Once this boundary has been established, any attacks against the State of Israel can and should be met with a strong, but measured, military response.

As I stated in my previous blog, neither Amir Peretz, leader of the dovish left-wing Labor Party, nor Ehud Olmert, heir-apparent to Sharon's Kadima Party, will have the fortitude to stand up to the UN, to the EU, and to the U.S. in the unilateral establishment of a secure and defensible Jewish state. Only Benjamin Netanyahu of the Likud Party has the backbone to establish such a state, and the Israelis will be well avised to elect him Prime Minister in the March 28th election.