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The Obstacle to Peace Is Hamas. Britain Would Not Accept Living Next to a Force that Wants to Destroy the UK

(Telegraph--UK) Amb. Tzipi Hotovely - Israelis desperately want a different future, one that is free from Hamas and one in which our 58 remaining hostages are home in Israel, reunited with their families or afforded a proper burial. We desperately want to live in peace with our neighbors, but the presence and ongoing attacks from genocidal terror groups on our border causes such a peace to remain elusive. I am sure that no Briton would accept an Islamist terror group operating on its border, sworn to destroy the UK. There was a ceasefire in place on Oct. 6, 2023, that was brutally breached by Hamas. We now live in a post-Oct. 7 reality. For our security, we need to see Gaza demilitarized; no one can expect us to simply wait for another Oct. 7. All Western leaders agree that Hamas must not remain in power, yet no viable plan that takes seriously our security concerns has been proposed. Hamas has created an industry from the aid that it diverts from those who need it. Its strategy is to steal it, sell it and use it to recruit new terrorists, pay their salaries and continue launching attacks against our people. The evidence of Hamas looting aid from international organizations, paid for by donor countries including the UK, is overwhelming. Even Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas has criticized "the looting and theft carried out by criminal gangs targeting warehouses and storage facilities of humanitarian aid [in Gaza]." The writer is Israel's Ambassador to the UK.
2025-05-27 00:00:00
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