Yesterday I wrote an article that ended with a suggestion to Hamas. The suggestion was, just stop trying to kill us, and be prepared to be amazed at how wonderful your lives will become. You say you want the siege lifted? The sanctions, which you call a siege, were put in place, as a non-lethal method of getting you to stop trying to kill us! You say you want to improve the lot of the Palestinian people who are suffering in Gaza? Just stop trying to kill to kill us, and you can become the Singapore of the Middle East! Evidently Hamas didn’t read the article or, having read it, decided not to heed its advice. Five minutes after I left the Eshkol group of agricultural communities, Hamas violated the latest cease-fire by launching a mortar attack against an Israeli farming village. They killed four people, all soldiers. According to Hamas spokesman Abu Odeh, “Hamas never targets civilians. It only targets Jews.” By that reckoning, they hit...(Read Full Post)