Comments on: Did hamas lose?

By: Neil G

Neil G — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:21:11 +0000

I don’t think this is a stupid strategy at all. The Palestinian strategy has always been to set up a quasi-state within other nations. They did it in Jordan before they were thrown out in what they called Black September. They did it in Lebanon before they were expelled to Tunisia. Hezbollah has pretty much done the same in Lebanon and now they have a bridgehead into Egypt. It may look stupid now but if they start shooting missiles into Israel and now Israel starts worrying about a wider war with Egypt it won’t look stupid at all.

Not only that but a terror state constantly needs to expand because it produces nothing. It only feeds off those who produce and can be intimidated. They couldn’t get into Israel and they had to go somewhere.

This is a battle won.

By: Joel Rosenberg

Joel Rosenberg — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:29:58 +0000

I think there’s a fairly simple explanation for Hamas’ stupidity: they’re stupid. Evil, sure, but stupid, stupid, stupid.

By: Eric J

Eric J — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:42:04 +0000

The problem is, Gazans have been fed so much martyrdom talk for so long, that I don't think we can expect them to act in their own self-interest anymore, not just on an individual level, but on a national level as well. They're basically ramping up for a million person game of Suicide by Cop.