Israel is not the only target of Palestinian terrorists.  The United States has long been a recipient of Palestinian hatred and has been, in the minds of many Palestinians and much of the Islamic world, the other Satan.

Elites and those who are ignorant speak of the so-called cycle of violence in the Middle East but what is really telling as to the true nature of the Mid East is the decades long violence perpetuated by Palestinians and their allies. (READ MORE: Israel at War)

The first act of Palestinian terrorism in the United States related to the greater Middle East conflict, was the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York in June 1968 by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy, the brother of the late President John F. Kennedy, was a strong supporter of the State of Israel. As a college student the future Senator Kennedy had visited British Mandate Palestine shortly before the birth of the State of Israel in 1948. Kennedy wrote dispatches that appeared in The Boston Post that spoke glowingly of the soon to be nation and its Jewish inhabitants. The Senator believed that Israel would be a prosperous, thriving land and his support for the Jewish people was cemented on that trip.

Continuing the strong support of Israel seen in his brother’s Presidency, Robert Kennedy declared during his own run for the Presidency in 1968 that the United States had an obligation to come to Israel’s assistance if the latter was attacked.  Later that year, sadly it was Kennedy who was attacked and assassinated by Sirhan B. Sirhan. Kennedy was shot exactly a year after the Six Day War that saw Israel defeat several Arab states including Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.  Sirhan admitted he killed Bobby Kennedy due to Kennedy’s support for the State of Israel after seeing a documentary on Kennedy’s 1948 visit. (Sirhan later changed his mind post-conviction and now says he does not remember anything).

In the immediate hours after the worst terrorist attack in American history on September 11, 2001, it was Palestinians who were cheering as men, women, and children were slaughtered on airplanes and people were falling out of the World Trade Center, one thousand feet above ground, to escape the hellish heat. Just a few years later, polls showed that nearly  supermajority of Palestinians approved of continuing Al-Qaida attacks in America and Europe.  Not much has changed since. (READ MORE: Israel’s 9-11: What Now?)

Fifty years after the October 1973 Yom Kippur War, Hamas terrorists launched a sneak attack into Israel that, within a matter of hours, had been seen throughout the world. The attack consisted of a plethora of war crimes perpetuated against Israeli soldiers and civilians, as well as on Hamas’s own Palestinian people, now being sequestered in place despite Israeli military operations, so as to serve as human shields.

While obviously not all Palestinians are terrorists, Hamas is a terrorist organization that deserves to be eliminated.  Israel has bent over backwards for the Palestinians, at one point in the year 2000 offering them approximately 98 percent of their stated demands. That deal was rejected by the terrorist leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat, who wanted nothing short of the elimination of Israel. That remains the objective of Hamas to this day and elections cannot even be held among the Palestinians in the West Bank because the Palestinian Authority believes the radical Islamists would win. Short of Biblical intervention this conflict and will take many decades, if not centuries, to be resolved.

Some have suggested sitting down and talking with Hamas. The time for talking has long been over and such suggestions are as dangerous as they are tone deaf. Such idiotic suggestions are akin to talking with the Nazis.

Any chance of moral equivalency was thrown out the window when these attacks happened and is only reinforced by the nearly immediate demonstrations in London, New York, and elsewhere in support of the Palestinians while Israeli hostages’ bodies were still being found.

While not all Palestinians are terrorists the amount of hatred stemming from Palestinian areas and the larger Middle East towards Israel, and reaching into the West, is demonic.

There is only one earthly way deal with such an evil in this fallen world.  Kill their leaders and soldiers. Such necessity is not cheered by the righteous, but is justified so men, women, and children can sleep in peace; a sleep that was not accorded in the sneak attacks that killed Senator Kennedy in 1968, the victims of September 11, 2001, and those who have been killed in 2023 shortly after the 50^th Anniversary of the Yom Kippur War.

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