ISRAEL AND HAMAS RECURRING CONFLICT: THERE IS A PERMANENT SOLUTION FOR IT.

ICHEOKU says the world is somewhat tired of the frequently erupting crisis between Hamas Islamist terrorist organization and the  Jewish State of Israel. This pattern of occurrence, of repeat exchanges of rockets and retaliatory bombardments, which has been going on for many years now, usually gets interrupted with a ceasefire. It is during such brokered ceasefire induced interregnum that each side goes back to re-strategize, recoup and restock weapons and armaments readying for the next episode to continue their back and forth exchange of hostilities. 

The world has witnessed too many of these episodes that it is now almost to be expected that  every so often, another one will likely erupt and most always, it does. They have become too predictable, begging the question, is there nothing that could be done to permanently checkmate them? ICHEOKU says the constantly brokered cease fire is not helping matter but is inadvertently fueling the repeat crisis. Hamas, is aware that the world will always intervene to stop any conflict from seriously developing, the reason they feel embolden to always start a new one, because the world will not stand idly by and watch them be severely pulverized. This is why  they have remained adamant all these years in reaching a lasting peace agreement and also refusing to recognize Israel's right to exist. 

This frequently occurring periodic exchanges of hostilities which are then punctuated by ceasefire hiatus is no longer fashionable and should no longer be acceptable as a bandaid to the insecurity posed by the Hamas Islamist terrorist organization and their Iranian sponsors. Therefore, it is about time for the world to allow Israel do what Israel needs to do to permanently secure the safety of Israelis and the Jewish nation. The world should look away and allow the two warring parties to fight themselves to the finish, till death if need be; and for however long it takes until one of them eventually surrenders to the other's superior military might. That is what it will take as one of them has to prove their superiority to the other before there will be an everlasting peace in that region. It is a battle for superiority and there cannot be two equally superior party in the conflict.

But as long as the world continues to rush in every time they start one of their skirmishes to pull them apart, they will never stop nor seriously seek a meaningful lasting resolution of the conflict which triggers the repeat exchanges. With every break, they will always return to another in the future aware that they will always be saved by the bell of world intervention. In any dispute or conflict, there must be a clear winner or victor and a humbled loser who is left to lick their humiliation before the issue in contention can be effectively and permanently resolved. it does not matter what the issue is but as long as there is a tussle for it, a decisive outcome is necessarily required for there to be an effective resolution. 

Be it a piece of land, chattel or a claim of right or title and sometimes even a bragging right, whenever two people are contesting the right over something, one of them must decisively assertive authority over it before the matter can rest. Countries go to war over territories: the United Kingdom did that with Argentina over Maldives or Falkland Islands and the war conclusively resolved ownership of the island. Since that war of 1982, Argentina has never raised a finger over the Islands. The United States of America went to war with Japan and following Nagasaki and Hiroshima devastation, the indisputable winner emerged in the Pacific realms and Japan has never raised a finger at America ever since. Their story is true then as it remains true today and is also applicable to the impasse between Israel and Hamas that triggers these often occurring hostilities as there cannot be two captains on a ship. 

The crisis between Israel and Hamas as well as the greater Arab world has been going on for centuries without a resolution. A resolution will only come when one side decisively defeats the other and either banished them into exile or completely destroy and wipe them out of existence and assert a supreme control all over the territory in contention. It is a fight which only the death of one party will ever resolve as they both want the exclusive ownership and control over the same two things: the whole stretch piece of land including Jerusalem. There is land to share and there is no Jerusalem to divide and only an absolute total dominion over both the land and Jerusalem, with one of the parties becoming the undisputed and indisputable overlord will ensure peace in that region. 

Unfortunately, the supporters of both sides are shy in calling the spade a spade and they are not willing to do the only thing that it will require to solve the problem. Only one of the parties will  assert ownership over Jerusalem and only one full functioning State is possible out of the situation. With what Hamas is doing in Gaza, Israel will never allow a second fully functioning independent State to emerge there and dividing the Jewish "eternal" capital is also not an option.  So, since both sides want the same piece of land and Jerusalem exclusively and to the eviction of the other, they must be allowed to earn them as only a superior power will entitle them to so do. One of them must be allowed to roundly defeat the other and take them into bondage of slavery or drive them away into permanent exile and then take a freehold over the entire reality. 

Hamas does not want to recognize Israeli's right to exist and Israel does not want to share the land and Jerusalem; nor will tolerate a full functioning Palestine State, living side by side with it because of the apparent attendant security risks involved. These are two irreconcilable parallel positions with no chance of ever intersecting at any other meaningful solution. The two gladiators must therefore fight to the death and let the survivor take it all, case closed. Any other thing or proposition is but a bandaid which will peel off sooner than it is placed and the cycle of violence will resume. It has been going on for quite some time and will only continue until there is a logical resolution of the underlying matters, the land and hatred for one another, which fuels the recurring conflict.

The latest ongoing conflict has revealed the ugly underbelly of these repeat ceasefires as it only enables Hamas to get better with their training and understudying of terrorism against Israel. It also enabled them to procure more advanced weapons and Israel's other adversaries such as Iran is using the periodic conflicts to fine-tune their military capabilities as they test their rocket technology and precision targeting. Now, Hamas rockets are reaching different parts of Israel including Tel Aviv with higher destructive efficiency and lethality. They were even able to stop flights from landing and taking off at ben Gurion International Airport which forced many airlines to cancel flights. They figured out that rockets swarming can override and overwhelm Israel's  Iron Dome, showing the limitations of the air shield technology. 

It seems too that Hamas does not care about how many Palestines are killed in the process or how many structures in Gaza which Israel destroys in retaliation. To them, any Israeli killed by their rockets is a huge success, as it is a psychological warfare which they are fighting and every target hit in Israel, be it human being or structure, they will relish and cherish. They know that the odds against them is steep ,and that they do not stand any chance of victory over Israel, but they do not care and will continue to send in rockets into Israel until something happens. So far they rockets have destroyed a lot of structures in Israel and have also killed many Israelis as any Israeli killed is considered simply too many and a lot by the Jewish standard. There are not many Jewish people left and any Jew lost is doubly painful for such a tiny population nation. 

For how long will the Jewish people tolerate the continuous loss of Jewish lives to these Hamas rockets. If Hamas could kill 7 Israelis inside Israel and destroy so many buildings, cars and other properties, both in Tel Aviv, Lod and Ashkelon with their rockets, imagine what will happen when they increase the barrage of rockets going into Israeli territories. How Israel's security agencies allowed so many rockets to be imported into Gaza Strip without detection and was unaware as Hamas restocked their weapons after 2014 skirmish, leaves much to be desired by people who admire Israel's security networks reputed to be one of the best there is. This recurring exchange of hostilities should have been resolved a long time ago, but have been allowed to metastasize to the point that Hamas rockets can now kill Israelis inside Israel. 

Hamas has become stronger under Israel's watch and this ongoing conflict provides yet another opportunity for Israel to completely decimate them; otherwise a day will come when they will acquire more lethal technologies including the much dreaded atom bomb and they will not hesitate to fire them right into Tel Aviv. So, Israel must not agree to another quick cease fire and must do whatever it needs to do to decrease and depreciate Hamas and their capabilities no matter the cost to them, in both soldiers lost and weapons and money spent. They should also consider taking over the shipping ports in Gaza and subject every shipment entering Gaza to invasive examination to avoid dangerous lethal weapons ever being stockpiled with which Israelis will be killed and their cities destroyed. Even revoking the status of Gaza should also be on the table as tolerating such a hostile commune so close to Israel is a bad mistake.

If Hamas could force Ben Gurion Airport to close, no matter for how temporarily a period of time and get their rockets to land in Tel Aviv, they can only get better the next time, both in targeting and precisely striking targets within the greater Israel with more deadliness. This impending doomsday scenario for Israelis is something that must be resisted with every ounce of might in Israel and if it means fighting another Arab war, so be it. The cancerous Hamas which is metastasizing needs to be excised now or they will live long enough to do such irreparable damage to Israel that will send shock rudders to the spine of the world. They have remained recalcitrant all these years and have rebuffed and rejected every peace initiative put forward; so the only thing now left, which is worth exploring, is to allow Israel to defeat them militarily and submit them as a conquered people. 

Enough of the never ending rounds of conflicts and their accompanying rounds of brokered ceasefires. The conflict needs to be resolved permanently through a decisive and logical battle of superiority and let the spoils go to the victor. Let the two sides fight to finish and let the better side win and assert dominion over the vanquished and in that way, get the problem resolved once and for all. No more ceasefires. #SayNoToHamaTerror.