On June 30, the Embassy of Israel announced: “With great sadness we must announce the bodies of Eyal, Gilad and Naftali have been found near Hebron. Our thoughts are with their families.”     Their tragic end wasn’t inevitable, but almost so. Hamas kidnapped three Israeli teenagers returning from school to their parents’ homes for the Sabbath because it could; because they were there; because the experience with Gilad Shalit was an almost unadulterated “win” for terror. After Hamas held the IDF soldier for nearly five years without a single visit by the Red Cross, Israel released 1027 prisoners responsible for the deaths of 569 Israeli civilians to get him back. The “unity government” Hamas forged with Fatah in May -- openly approved by the United States government, which declared that ascension of an organization on the U.S. list of terror groups to a position of government authority was not cause for alarm or sanction -- appears to have given Hamas the...(Read Full Article)