In spite of a mutually agreed upon unilateral ceasefire declared last January 18, Hamas still launched rockets against Israel. Two missiles and several mortars were fired by militants into Israel. Three Israelis were injured. Israel now says that their reaction will be “huge.” Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reiterates, “We have said that in the event of a launch of rockets against the South, there would be a disproportionate response.” In no time at all, Israeli retaliated with airstrikes, hitting a police station in central Gaza and tunnels near the border with Egypt.

Radical Islamists groups, such as Hamas that occupies Gaza, do not exist for peace. They exist precisely for chaos. Creating strife is their business. It is their mandate to sow terror. Radical Islamism and Islamic peace are an oxymoron. Most Muslims, especially those who do not have acute political ambitions, condemn the strategies and the very principles of existence of radical Islamism. Islamist groups are what give Islam an unnecessarily negative reputation. But Islam is not radical Islamism. Muslim extremist militancy is but a small percentage of the entire Muslim world that is generally peace-loving.

Israel can never solve the Hamas problem precisely because of conflict of interest in the Gaza Strip. Hamas, like any typical radical Islamist group, will not stop until they achieve self-rule and self-determination. Such is the way of radical Islamists: they settle upon a land, stir up chaos upon fighting for their claim of the land, and unceasingly wave the cause of oppression of their basic human rights while invoking the purported oppression of Muslims through the millennia.

We’ve heard it before. We’ve seen it happen elsewhere. Radical Islamism is a modus operandi upon itself.

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