Here’s a newsflash.

Pulling out of Gaza will not stop terrorism.

Hamas has said so. Surely you know of Hamas. The humanitarian organization that the left loves soooooooooo much that they can’t bear to not compare them to the people they kill?

Anyway, Hamas has said they will not only not stop killing those pesky Israelis, but that they may even turn on the PA and use force on them.

A senior Hamas official yesterday threatened both open confrontation with the Palestinian Authority and continued attacks on Israel from Gaza after the disengagement, saying that Hamas had “lost faith” in Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen).[Emphasis mine]

And further down…

Zahar, who gave the interview as Abbas was in Damascus to try and reach an agreement with Hamas’ external leadership on various PA-Hamas disputes, warned: “The Palestinian Authority and Fatah need to know that what they are doing now is playing with fire. They will bear responsibility for ignoring Hamas and the [other] factions and for their insistence on managing the withdrawal alone. We will not serve as a fig leaf on this matter, nor will we allow it [the PA] to steal the achievements of the street and Hamas - the sacrifice of its [Hamas'] sons and its leadership to liberate the land of Gaza - just so that this land will be distributed to some individual or another.”

He even hinted that Hamas would be willing to use force against the PA to prevent it from running Gaza after Israel’s withdrawal: “Just as we did not accept the occupation of the land, we will not allow it to be allocated to anyone who did not play a part in liberating it,” he said, referring to the PA. “The PA, which accuses itself day and night of corruption, cannot manage the population. They will encounter a determined street if they try to decide by themselves, and Hamas will never work with them.”

Hamas will not join a unity government, as the PA has proposed, Zahar said. It would agree to sit on a committee comprised of representatives of all the Palestinian factions, which would manage Gaza jointly, but only if this committee were not part of the PA. Moreover, “only those who liberated Gaza should participate in such a committee, not other parties, who are now trying to increase the number of people who want to share in the division of the spoils,” he said.

Wow.

Who knew that Israel running from Gaza with its tail between its legs wasn’t gonna solve the problem or do anything to promote peace?

I mean, besides everyone.