Funny, I thought the elections were supposed to “moderate” Hamas. That’s what they all keep telling us, right?

Wrong.

Hamas has yet to suspend its efforts to perpetrate terror attacks against Israel despite having won the Palestinian parliamentary elections last week, a high-ranking IDF officer told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.

According to the officer, the relatively low number of terror attacks in recent months was due to the military’s intensive crackdown in the West Bank and the almost daily arrest operations the army carried out in Palestinian cities. On Tuesday, IDF forces arrested 22 Palestinian fugitives throughout the West Bank, including seven Hamas operatives.

“There hasn’t been a change in the Hamas since the elections,” said the officer who commands a brigade stationed in the West Bank. “They are still highly motivated to carry out attacks and to obtain new technology to advance their weaponry and rockets.”

The officer said that the defense establishment had noticed an attempt by the Hamas to train operatives in the West Bank how to manufacture Kassam-style rockets that could be fired at Israeli cities along the coast.

You may have noticed that I’ve now added a Hamas category to my posts. I look forward to the day when it disappears, because that will mean Hamas will have disappeared.

Not that I expect it to happen. I’m just an optimist.