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Who or What Will Finally End Hamas?
American Greatness ^ | 20 Oct, 2025 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 10/20/2025 5:23:10 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Hamas is an irredeemable terrorist cartel that subverts Gaza, uses civilians as shields, and must be dismantled and barred from power before any genuine peace can begin.

Hamas was born and exists to kill Jews, seek the destruction of Israel, and, to some extent, overthrow or subvert pro-Western Arab governments. Period.

For those ends, it diverted billions of dollars from the people of Gaza to build a vast subterranean labyrinth of military headquarters and arsenals. It expropriated hospitals, mosques, and schools for use as tunnel entries and exits, using expendable civilian shields to protect its rich terrorist hierarchy. Hamas always counted on plenty of collateral damage to sway the Western left to become active enablers of its murderous causes—in a way, it is also stone silent on other “occupied land” and “refugees,” from the recent ethnic cleansing in Azerbaijan and Nigeria to the long-standing illegal occupations of Northern Cyprus and swaths of the Congo.

Hamas was willing to execute its Palestinian Authority rivals, cancel all elections after its first and only victory, hold kangaroo death courts to murder dissidents, and steal hundreds of billions of dollars in Western and international relief. It has already violated the ceasefire, attacking and killing Israelis, and now claims it has “lost” the remains of Israeli hostages, whom it likely murdered (and thus does not want more physical evidence of their barbarity).

Hamas will never give up power, despite the fact that its ruling elite is all but wiped out, thousands of its foot soldiers are dead, and it is now loathed by most nations of the Middle East. The subtext of every negotiation over the future of Gaza is that almost every Arab regime privately wants the U.S. or Israel to eliminate Hamas. It is likely more popular at American college campuses

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1 posted on 10/20/2025 5:23:10 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: texas booster

VDH ping


2 posted on 10/20/2025 5:23:40 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Hamas? Who or what will stop Islam? EVIL barbarian collective.


3 posted on 10/20/2025 5:26:02 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: 5th MEB; 6ppc; agondonter; Alberta's Child; AndyJackson; Aria; artichokegrower; ...
Ping! Out to the Victor Davis Hanson list

The chief obstacle to Phase II of the ceasefire and hostage exchange is the elimination of Hamas. Otherwise, we are at a rare moment of opportunity in the Middle East, where the once unimaginable has become a reality.

Remember when NK used to send ships loaded with cement to Gaza? We thought that it was to hide missile bodies in the ship. They built tunnels with the stuff. Eliminate Hamas.

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4 posted on 10/20/2025 5:28:04 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: PGalt
Who or what will stop Islam? EVIL barbarian collective.

The same thing that stopped the Nazis. That's the answer.

5 posted on 10/20/2025 5:31:57 AM PDT by JesusIsLord
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To: MtnClimber

“Hamas will never give up power,”

Sound familiar? Know of any political faction in the US that fits that description?


6 posted on 10/20/2025 5:33:42 AM PDT by redfreedom (They’re AWFUL...Affuent White Female Urban Leftists)
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7 posted on 10/20/2025 5:35:28 AM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: MtnClimber

Everyone here since at least 2001 or 444 days or the Barbary days knows Islam needs to be excised.

They own the guns and have a lot of power/ intimidation with the evil to murder their own. Their charter is full wxtermination of Israel

So? Arming enemies was a fail before because Islam.
Appears clear.


8 posted on 10/20/2025 5:35:58 AM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: MtnClimber

VDH is right on of course.
Short answer to the title:

1) Kill and decimate ALL of Gaza’s terrorist’s, that means a LOT of collateral damage to the civilians but they fully supported the October 7th attacks and partook in the raping, looting, pillaging, mutilating and burning innocent Jews. They deserve whatever is coming.

The longer answer:

2) HAMAS will never disarm - all they have to live for is killing or being killed. That is the meaning of life (death) for them.

Bottom line - no peace deal just excuses, “Takia” and “Hudna” in the meantime until they can regroup and begin the savagery all over again.

The “average” Gazan is scum living and dying under their own foolish choices. No regrets...just finish the job.


9 posted on 10/20/2025 5:36:33 AM PDT by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.)
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To: JesusIsLord

This collective has been around 1800+ years. It’s presence is planet-wide. It has forward operating bases everywhere. It has singleness of purpose. Indoctrinated believers from madrasas to mosque number in the billions.


10 posted on 10/20/2025 5:40:22 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber

The folks of Gaza must reject them and fight them. Thats the only way. So…….


11 posted on 10/20/2025 5:41:13 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: MtnClimber

Victor Davis Hanson has it correct.


12 posted on 10/20/2025 5:42:13 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: MtnClimber

UN withdrawing funding


13 posted on 10/20/2025 5:43:36 AM PDT by struggle
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To: MtnClimber

Kill every last one of them and their entire families.

It’s distasteful but must be done so no one else ever dares to do this again.

L


14 posted on 10/20/2025 5:44:20 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.l)
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To: MtnClimber
Who or What Will Finally End Hamas?

Nobody, except another extremist group.

PLO in Lebanon was pushed out and replaced by Hezbollah

15 posted on 10/20/2025 5:46:05 AM PDT by tlozo (“We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth,” Trump)
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To: Netz

-——2) HAMAS will never disarm-——

I believe that all involved in the negotiations actually knew that fact to be true. Phase two of the process was put on paper and agreed to knowing is was just words without reality. That especially includes President Trump, a purely rational man.

Hamas must physically be disarmed. That means that Hamas must in fact be exterminated. That act of extermination is now in process by the IDF.

That act of extermination is approved by President Trump, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and probably Jordan. Qatar and Turkey don’t matter. Neither does Iran or Syria


16 posted on 10/20/2025 5:46:07 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: Netz

what does it take for people to understand how evil Hamas truly is. They will NEVER make peace.


17 posted on 10/20/2025 5:46:46 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim
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To: JesusIsLord

“ Who or what will stop Islam? “

The King of Kings.


18 posted on 10/20/2025 5:47:09 AM PDT by Ken Regis (I concur )
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To: tlozo

Wrong

The IDF will destroy the armed Hamas. The Abraham Accords coalition will see to it that Hamas is never able to reconstitute.


19 posted on 10/20/2025 5:47:50 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: Netz

“HAMAS will never disarm”

It astounds me that people on Free Republic could believe that the dreams of ‘gun control’ could ever come true.


20 posted on 10/20/2025 5:48:45 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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