UPDATED BELOW
If Israel lets Hamas live to fight another day, or gives in to Lurch’s and Wormtongue’s insistence that they do (like the Worm succeeded in twisting Jerusalem’s arm to do back in 2012), the fire next time will be devastating.
Iran and Syria already have GPS-guided rockets which Hamas surely wants and keeps trying to get smuggled in by land or by sea. If they survive this confrontation, they will surely get them, perhaps even learn to make them as they already do some of their rockets now, and then they will: hit selected government and popular shopping targets in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv with pinpoint barrages of so many rockets Iron Dome can’t cope. Then go on, say, to wipe out a loaded airliner waiting for takeoff at Ben Gurion Airport.
Of course, the IDF could then pile on and destroy them. It should do so now. Waiting will only insure greater casualties on both sides. Israel lost so-called “world opinion” years ago. Really, the leftist news media, academia and other political radicals such as the Dictator’s Club called the United Nations. It’s not worth risking the future for public relations nonsense.
Hamas needs destroying: leader by leader, rocket by rocket, tunnel by tunnel.
Now. Nothing less will do.
Via Spengler.
UPDATE: Author and former Israel ambassador to U.S. Michael Oren says: “…to send an unequivocal message to terrorist organizations and their state sponsors everywhere, Israel must be permitted to crush Hamas in the Gaza Strip.”
Permitted? Who could stop them but themselves?
MORE: Wormtongue and the UN move to save Hamas after Lurch’s attempt failed. Only question now seems to be will Bibi defy them long enough to finish destroying the attack tunnels?
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
“If Israel lets Hamas live to fight another day…” If you want my forecast, we will let them. No one has it in him to go really into Gaza City. The price will be terrible – for both sides.
Level it, then bounce the rubble around for a day or two.
“The price will be terrible – for both sides.” With every delay, cease-fire, pause, the price will assuredly become greater and greater.
I’m with JD. If necessary the IDF should do what we had to do at Hue.
I expect you’re right, Mr. Goon, that Israel will let Hamas live to fight another time, and it will be terrible. How long will it take them to refurbish the tunnels with our $47 million? Not to mention the billions we’ve given their sponsor Qatar? A year? To restock with new GPS-guided rockets? Two years? Israel already has
3042 dead soldiers,almostmore than three times the number of 2012. It’s easy for me to say, being on the outside looking in. But it seems obvious. Bite the bullet now or bite it later.Hue…that was a classic for the annals of the Corps. Except for the last part, where we had to let the ARVNs put up their flag instead of the US flag. Should have killed Westmoreland for that. Asshole.