Timothy P. Carney is the senior political columnist at the Washington Examiner and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He is the author of Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse, The Big Ripoff, and Obamanomics.
The Hamas gunmen who stormed Israeli towns, murdering, wounding, and taking hostage children and grandmothers, are rightly called terrorists, rather than “combatants” or any term that could imply they are valid military forces.
Israel is mighty militarily. They are striking back with force and alacrity already. They may quickly recapture the territory seized by Hamas. Taking out the plotters of this attack and their facilities may not prove difficult. But the costs of an Israeli victory look likely to be steep. This is, in all likelihood, the desired goal of the terrorists who plotted these attacks for the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War. Just as the plotters of the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. hoped to both rally fellow believers and ignite wars that trigger blowback, so the Hamas plotters hope that the destruction Israel will rightly inflict on them in these days will radicalize other Arab Muslims.
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