GeT RICH QUICK

This, for the benefit of anyone still unable or unwilling to see what’s happening in front of their eyes, is what the beloved Palestinian chant “from the river to the sea” really means.

It means psychopaths rounding up Jewish families and burning their homes. It means children abducted from their parents’ arms. It means desecrated corpses spat on and dragged through the streets. It means a mother taken hostage as she clutches her babies to her chest. It means a kidnapped Jewish boy being mocked and hit by Palestinian children. It means the sadistic slaughter of Jewish men, women, children and babies.

This is what “from the river to the sea” means. This is what it has always meant.

This unparalleled psychotic onslaught by Hamas has nothing to do with a political cause. It’s not about calling for justice or a state. It’s got nothing to do with resistance, occupation or self-determination. It never has been.

This is plain and simple historic Islamist bloodlust, passed down through the generations from birth. An ever-present cancer, lurking in the shadows, now stands fully exposed, its medieval ambition shocking to the core – the genocide of the Jewish people.

Jews, no matter where they live, are objects of disgust on the Palestinian street, held responsible for the shortcomings of the Muslim world.

Palestinians are not taught to hate Israelis because of Israel. They are taught to hate Jews because they are Jews. Just Jews. They are taught to be “martyrs”. To liberate Tel Aviv. Be it a village, a town, a city or a state, any Jewish presence in the Middle East – any – is intolerable and violently opposed. This sinister reflex has been at the root of every conflict since 1948.

Of course, Palestinians should have a state of their own – even one that would, without doubt, persecute other faiths, homosexuals and people on Twitter.

A state like Bangladesh, Libya, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Iran (the country that is sponsoring and supporting this carnage). States where Jews have been driven out and Israelis are forbidden. It would be tyrannical and oppressive and pose an existential danger to the entire region.

But, yes, the Palestinians have deserved a state to call their own ever since they first refused one back in 1948 and every time they have refused one since.

Until Saturday morning most Israelis respected this and saw it as inevitable.

They never will again.

Now it’s either Israel or Hamas.

It’s either Israel or the Allahu Akbar jihadists.

The Gaza Strip will never be the same again. A regime-change invasion is surely hours away and, with it, a surely futile attempt to separate Hamas from its citizens. The cancer is too deeply entwined within the body.

As Israel’s blood boils and fears intensify over the estimated 100 hostages being held in Gaza, the coming days will surely see an even greater loss of life than already witnessed. Hamas’ awful end can’t come soon enough.

First published in the Daily Express