"Self defense" at the falfafel stand

Jacob Sullum:

The day after I visited my niece in Tel Aviv, a young man named Sami Hamad blew himself up at a restaurant there. I had no particular reason to think my niece was anywhere near Mayor's Falafel at 1:30 p.m., but I called her anyway, just to make sure. She was on her way to a concert in Jerusalem.
Other calls that day resulted not in reassurance but in concern escalating to panic and culminating in grief. Hamad, who was from the West Bank village of al-Harakah, killed nine people working in the restaurant, waiting in line for falafel or shwarma, or passing by when he detonated his bomb, including a 47-year-old security guard who stopped him at the entrance, a 29-year-old from Holon whose wife was about to give birth to their third child and two foreign workers from Romania. The bomb injured about 70 people, including two children, a 60-year-old French tourist and a 16-year-old American, who was critically wounded.
A spokesman for Hamas, the party that controls the Palestinian legislature and Cabinet after January's elections, blamed the attack on "the Israeli occupation," saying, "Our people... have every right to use all means to defend themselves." The Hamas-run Interior Ministry called the bombing "a direct result of the policy of the occupation and the brutal aggression and siege committed against our people."
The "occupation" to which Hamas refers is not the one after the Six-Day War in 1967, when Israel took control of the West Bank and Gaza (which it left last year). Hamas is talking about the "occupation" that resulted from establishment of the state of Israel in 1948.
The position of the Palestinian Authority, created by negotiations aimed at achieving a lasting settlement between Israelis and Palestinians, is clear: All Israel must do to stop the terrorist attacks -- excuse me, the perfectly legitimate acts of self-defense -- is cease to exist.

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The real estate worshipping death cult also known as Hamas stands language on its head to claim self defense for an unprevoked attack at a resturant. For them the provocation is Israel's existence. By describing exploding Palestinians as self defense, he is attempting to mock Israel's legitimate acts of self defense in responding to rocket attacks and other terrorist acts. In the warped mind of the death cult, Israelis have no right to fight back or to even exist. That is why Hamas must be destroyed if the Palestinians are to have a state. Right now they do not deserve one.