Lately there’s been a clamor of voices calling for an end to the fighting in Gaza. And I mean beyond the usual theatrics from the anti-Israel crowd. Pro-Israel people have claimed that Hamas is destroyed because most of its leaders are gone.

Yes, most of the top Hamas leaders inside Israel are dead. The terror group has suffered serious battlefield casualties. But it is by no stretch of the imagination destroyed. The thing to remember is that Hamas is just the Muslim Brotherhood in Gaza. Unlike Al Qaeda or ISIS, the core of Hamas consists not just of armed terrorists, but the Brotherhood itself. And the Brotherhood/Hamas is still running Gaza.

Suggesting that Hamas has been destroyed is like saying the Jihad is over because we got Bin Laden.

Hamas just folds itself in and out of not only the Brotherhood, but the various fronts and groups it infiltrates from Al Jazeera to Islamic food aid agencies. Hamas operated out of mosques and charitable groups before it formally began to engage in terrorism. After Oct 7, Israel has destroyed a lot of the Hamas operational capability, but the group is not gone and every adult male Brotherhood member and clans aligned with Hamas will make it all too easy for the terror group to rebound.

There’s a lesson there not just for Israel, but for Americans. You can’t defeat terrorism if you allow the political and religious organizations, and their front groups to remain as dragon’s teeth.

That’s one reason why America watched the USSR crumble, but still lost to the leftists who served as the Enemy Within.