The Patriot Post® · Hamas' War Crime

Charles Krauthammer: “Speaking of Hamas-run Gaza, [John] Kerry actually said in Paris: ‘The Palestinians can’t have a cease-fire in which they think the status quo is going to stay.’ What must change? Gazans need ‘goods that can come in and out … a life that is free from the current restraints.’ But the only reason for those ‘restraints,’ for goods unable to come in and out, is that for a decade Hamas has used this commerce to import and develop weapons for making war on Israel. Remember the complaints that the heartless Israelis were not allowing enough imports of concrete for schools and hospitals? Well, now we know where the concrete went – into an astonishingly vast array of tunnels for infiltrating neighboring Israeli villages and killing civilians. Lifting the blockade would mean a flood of arms, rockets, missile parts and other implements of terror for Hamas. What is an American secretary of state doing asserting that Hamas cannot cease fire unless it gets that? Moreover, the fire from which Hamas will not cease consists of deliberate rocket attacks on Israeli cities – by definition, a war crime.”