India’s call for the release of the hostages still under the Hamas captivity and the sustained supply of humanitarian assistance to the people of Gaza is grounded in its traditional policy aimed at fostering peace and development in the region. Hamas would do well to heed this call.  The captivity of the Israeli hostages makes no sense after Hamas has signed the ceasefire agreement with the Israelis. However, Hamas is highly unlikely to be receptive to any rational proposal for peace and development.

Observers say there is little qualitative difference between Hamas and other Palestinian leaders. None of them believes in peace and development. They are not for a Palestinian state living in peace alongside Israel. Their goal is to annihilate Israel and control the whole of Palestine from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.

Temperamentally, Hamas/Palestinian leaders have been closed to despots the world over. In the 1940s, Palestinian leader Mufti Hajj Amin al-Husseini hobnobbed well with German dictator Adolf Hitler. In the 1970s and ’80s, the Palestinian leadership backed the Irish Republican Army. It provided guns, sabotage devices and special training to the IRA.

In 1980, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat backed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein against Iran. In 1990, Arafat backed Saddam against Kuwait. Currently, the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is on very fine terms with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.

The observers say Israel has done well to relaunch its operations against the Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip. While agreeing to the proposed by US President Donald J Trump’s Special Envoy for the Middle East Steve Witkoff, Jerusalem had assumed the hostages still held in Gaza would be returned to it. This did not happen.

Israel must bear in mind that no Palestinian leader can ever be trusted to protect the general public, particularly Jews, Christians and others. The Israeli leadership must stick to its land whole-heartedly. The Torah, the Bible and the Koran all recognize its right to the land.

History bears out there has never been any entity called ‘Palestine’. Once, all of Israel was being occupied by the Ottomans. The British ceded 76% of their Mandate to Trans-Jordan. There is no point making any efforts to establish harmony with Palestinian/ Hamas leaderships. An authentic study already confirms Israel agreed to Palestinian statehood in 1937-1938, 1947-1948, 1967, 2000-2001, and 2007. The Palestinians have never accepted it in reality.

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