Hamas has its own conception of a cease-fire

Dear Editor:

Reading about thousands of demonstrators in Cambridge calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, I wonder how many of them realize a cease-fire means something very different to Hamas and the many other Palestinian Arab terror groups than it does for the rest of us.

Most people look at a cease-fire as a way to end violence and move towards peace. For Hamas, a cease-fire is a way to better prepare itself to perpetuate even more horrendous terror attacks and kill more innocent people as it moves towards its goal of destroying America's only true friend in the Middle East, Israel, and killing more Jews around the world.

Israelis would like nothing better than a real, permanent cease-fire, including the freeing of all the innocent people kidnapped by Hamas during the October 7 Massacre. But that massacre itself was a consequence of previous cease-fires, one of which was still in effect on the morning of October 7 until Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Fatah along with other terror groups and thousands of ordinary Gaza civilians broke it, murdered more than 1,200 innocent people, wounded thousands of others and took hundreds hostage.

The blood shed on October 7 and the destruction in Gaza is largely the fault of those who pressured for earlier cease-fires. If another "permanent" cease-fire is forced before the elimination of Hamas, those who pressured for it, including those demonstrators in Cambridge, will be largely responsible for the blood shed in the future terror attacks and wars.

All that is needed for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. Right now, there aren't many other than the Israeli soldiers fighting in Gaza who aren't either doing nothing or effectively collaborating with evil.

Sincerely,

Alan Stein

Sent to the Boston Globe March 4.

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