Clarity in the Middle East

NY Post Editorial:

It's apparently all over in Gaza save for the mopping up: Hamas has won a substantial victory over the forces of Fatah, and while the outcome shifts the regional security balance in a dangerous direction, it also brings clarity to the picture in that blood-soaked corner of the Middle East.

This could be a good thing.

With Hamas in control of Gaza and the official breakup of the Hamas-Fatah unity government, it's no longer possible to pretend that Israel has a reasonable partner with which to negotiate.

That was never anything but a fiction, of course, but now that Hamas has promised to set up an Islamist rump-state (doubtless with the aid of its Iranian masters), it's clear that war-war h as won out over jaw-jaw.

So be it.

Now, when Hamas turns its guns on its chief target, Israel will have a clear field of fire to shoot back.

As it no doubt will have to do.

For nothing less than a vicious band of Islamist terrorists has triumphed in Gaza this week, after a prolonged game of Throw the Other Guy Off the Roof.

Hamas has never for a moment deviated from its maximalist demands: the destruction of Israel and the elimination of Jews and other "nonbelievers" from the region - preferably by drowning them in the sea.

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The fighting in Gaza showed the situation for what it really was: two ruthless foes battling for power and the spoils of official corruption.

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The Palestinians of Gaza will have to live with their bad choice for now until they provoke Israel into destroying Hamas. It is a miserable course they have chosen but it is one they have opted for for 60 years. Experience is no cure for their insanity.

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