Why the rush to save the Hamas death cult?

Opinion Journal:

Nations must be militarily strong and determined enough to ensure their own survival. Israelis have long understood this harsh reality of global politics, and it has never been clearer than this week as the world browbeats Israel and the terror group Hamas for a "cease-fire" in Gaza.

Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer rejects criticism of the ground war in Gaza and says U.S. flights to Israel should resume. Photo credit: Getty Images.

President Obama and John Kerry have adopted this ostensibly even-handed trope, and on Tuesday the European Union went further and deplored Israel and Hamas as if they were equal perpetrators. Hamas should stop its "criminal and unjustifiable acts," the EU said, but it added that it was "particularly appalled" at the human cost of the Israel ground offensive. Particularly?

This all may be intended as fine impartiality, but the reality is that a cease-fire now would help Hamas. The terror group rejected Egypt's offer of a cease-fire last week after Israel had accepted it, perhaps figuring that Israel wouldn't risk a ground invasion. Or perhaps it wanted such an invasion figuring the world would condemn Israel for civilian casualties and Hamas would win the propaganda war.
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 I don't understand why we are in such a hurry to bail out Hamas.  The world would be a better place if they are completely defeated and disarmed.  Hamas has completely unrealistic expectations for the war it started with Israel.

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