Open Letter to Hamas
By Walter E. Block
I am now appointing myself as a speech writer for the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu. What shall he say in this, the first communication I am now writing for him? It is a message directed to Hamas, and reads as follows:
Be very careful with those hostages you are now holding. It will be in your best interest to release, immediately, all of those who are in danger of perishing: the elderly, the sick, the weak, those of very tender years (I especially have my eye on that five year old boy who is a captive of yours). Why? Because for every hostage who is not eventually returned to us, alive, we will execute 10 Palestinians. Oh, no, do not worry, we will not pick up random Gazan civilians and kill them (not that you worry, overmuch, about them; if you did, you would not be continually using them as shields, suicide bombers). That is not our way. That is your way, vis a vis helpless Israelis.
















