As the United Nations and a growing number of left-wing Americans call for a “ceasefire” in Gaza, Hamas is making it clear that they intend on repeating the kind of massacres they perpetrated on October 7th until Israel ceases to exist.

In an interview on Lebanese television that was captured and translated by MEMRI TV, Hamas official Ghazi Hamad declared, “We must teach Israel a lesson, and we will do this again and again. The Al-Aqsa Flood is just the first time, and there will be a second, a third, a fourth, because we have the determination, the resolve, and the capabilities to fight.”

After he said, “The occupation must come to an end,” the interviewer asked him if he was referring to the Gaza Strip (which Israel unilaterally withdrew from in 2005). “No, I am talking about all the Palestinian lands,” he said. When asked to clarify, “Does that mean the annihilation of Israel?” he responded, “Yes, of course.”

The argument that Israel should agree to a ceasefire just as it is in the early stage of its mission to destroy Hamas was bad enough when the implication was that Jews should just suck up what happened without holding the terrorists responsible. But now Hamas is outright saying that they will repeat the atrocities of October 7th — killing of 1,400 people ranging from infants to the elderly, raping women, kidnapping hundreds — until Israel no longer exists.

As long as Hamas still exists, calling for a “ceasefire” is saying Jews should just allow themselves to be continuously slaughtered.