Hamas has told the world that it will repeat October 7 as often as it can until Israel is destroyed

Ghazi Hamad, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, told Lebanese television barely two weeks after the massacre, and clarified that, yes, he meant:
1. “Israel is a country that has no place on our land,” and yes, it needs to be annihilated.
2. “The Al-Aqsa Deluge [as Hamas called its October 7 slaughter] is just the first time,
3. and there will be a second, a third, a fourth… Nobody should blame us for the things we do.
4. On October 7, October 10, October one-millionth, everything we do is justified.”

But Boehler knows better. On Channel 12, he solemnly asserted his conviction that the:
1. declaredly genocidal monsters will ultimately prove willing to give up their guns
2. and take no role in the political leadership of Gaza —
3. that Hamas, in short, will choose to melt away, to become not Hamas.

Asked by Levy whether he “realistically” thinks “that Hamas would eventually agree to lay down its weapons and not be part of Gaza’s political future,”
he answered without hesitation: “I do believe that.”