Memo To AFP: Hamas = Terrorists

Considering how the AFP carries water for Hamas, this should dispel any notion that Hamas is nothing less than a terrorist group whose intention is to inflict as much pain and misery on the populace as possible - and doubly so for the Israelis.

Hamas's military wing on Tuesday issued a threat to inflict harm on Israel through captured IDF soldier Cpl. Gilad Schalit following the death of a Palestinian inmate during riots in Ketziot Prison, Army Radio reported.

"We will not remain motionless in the face of the targeting of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. We have a number of ways to harm the enemy, including everything that pertains to the Gilad Schalit affair," the organization proclaimed in an announcement entitled "The possibilities of Hamas for harming Israel following the quashing of Palestinian inmates."

Shortly before midnight Monday the Israel Prison Service (IPS) announced that a prisoner who had been listed as critically injured during Monday's riots died of his wounds at Beersheba's Soroka Medical Center. According to the IPS, the 30-year-old prisoner was in the midst of a two-year sentence at the prison when the riots broke out.

Hamas hasn't remained motionless since it was formed. It has been dedicated to Israel's destruction from the get-go, and now that it is in control of Gaza, it has no problem with its own terrorists or Islamic Jihad firing off kassams into Israel on a near daily basis, or kidnapping Israeli soldiers like Gilad Shalit to be used as pawns to demand concessions from the Israeli government.

Hamas is dedicated to Israel's destruction, and nothing less will satiate that desire. Nothing.

To believe otherwise is to believe that the terrorist group will simply change its religious theology and ideology to something that it cannot be.