Bloodshed In Gaza Is What Hamas Wants

    Recently one of the Hamas leaders declared to an enthusiastic, brainwashed crowd that from Gaza will come death, martyrdom and killing. If one supports Israel, but opposes Israeli action on its border with Gaza, or if one opposes Israel but cares about all human life, supporting or excusing the actions of Islamic jihadists like Hamas does nothing but contribute to the bloodshed. Whether it is Hamas, Boko Haram, Abu Sayyaf, Al Shabazz, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda, ISIS, Taliban and so on; all of the many Islamic jihadi groups revel in blood, killing, martyrdom and death. They do not care how many of their own populations are sacrificed in order to achieve their tyrannical, oppressive religious goals. The world, if it truly wants to stop the bloodshed and more loss of innocent lives, must quit indulging and supporting these groups.
     It is not easy to respond to Islamic jihadists. They view compromise as weakness. They are uncompromising in their fanaticism and hatred for those different than themselves. They do not hesitate to kill civilians and sacrifice their own civilian populations. But this does not free the nations forced to respond to fanatical Islamic jihadists from doing everything they can to minimize loss of civilian life and harm to civilian populations. Civilians are the innocent victims of this and other conflicts.