Israel Must Finish the Job in Gaza Now

2025-08-01

The admonition that “If you are going through hell, keep going” applies to Israel amidst the blood libel that it is starving the people of Gaza and renewed efforts to secure a ceasefire there. The Israelis must instead finish the job with Hamas. Only by decisively defeating that terrorist regime is there any prospect of an actual end to the Gaza conflict, as opposed to a hudna – Islam’s cynical use of temporary pauses to regroup, rearm and then reengage under more favorable circumstances.

The admonition that “If you are going through hell, keep going” applies to Israel amidst the blood libel that it is starving the people of Gaza and renewed efforts to secure a ceasefire there.

The Israelis must instead finish the job with Hamas. Only by decisively defeating that terrorist regime is there any prospect of an actual end to the Gaza conflict, as opposed to a hudna – Islam’s cynical use of temporary pauses to regroup, rearm and then reengage under more favorable circumstances.

Even the Arab League has finally called on Hamas to lay down its arms and release the hostages, albeit in the absurd context of having the hapless Palestinian Authority put in charge of a new state of “Palestine.”

If Hamas won’t surrender for the good of the people it misrules, Israel must make the jihadists do so now.

This is Frank Gaffney.

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