Israeli PM's message to Hamas

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu just made the following speech in
front of the Knesset:

To Ismail Haniya, and the leaders and operatives of Hamas:

We, the people of Israel, owe you a huge debt of gratitude.  You have
succeeded where we have failed.  Because never before, in the history
of the
modern State of Israel, has the Jewish people been so united, like one
person with one heart.  You stole three of our most precious children,
and slaughtered them in cold blood.  But before we could discover the
horrible truth, we had 18 days of pain and anxiety while we searched
for them, during
which our nation united as never before, in prayer, in hopes, in mutual support.

And now, as you continue to launch deadly missiles indiscriminately ,
intended to maim and murder as many civilians as possible, while you
take cowardly refuge behind your own civilians - you continue to
inspire us to hold strongly onto our newly discovered unity.  Whatever
disputes we Jews may have with each other, we now know that we have
one common goal: we will defeat you.

But we are offering you now one last chance.  Within 24 hours , all
rocket fire - and I mean all rocket fire - will cease.  Completely.
Forever.

I give you formal notice that our tanks are massed at the Gaza border,
with artillery and air support at the ready.  We have already dropped
leaflets over the northern parts of the Gaza strip, warning civilians
of our impending arrival, and that they should evacuate southward,
forthwith.  If you fail to meet our ultimatum, we are coming in, and,
with God's help, this time we will not leave.  Every centimeter of
land that we conquer will be annexed to Israel, so that there will
never be another attack launched at our civilians from there.

Even so, we will continue to keep the door open to allow you to
surrender gracefully.  The moment you announce that you are laying
down arms, we will halt our advance, and there we will draw our new
borders.  If you continue to attack our citizens, we will continue to
roll southwards, driving you out of territory that you will never
again contaminate with your evil presence.

It pains me deeply that your civilians will be made homeless.  But we
did not choose this war; you did.  And if our choice is between
allowing our citizens to be targeted mercilessly by your genocidal
savagery, versus turning your civilians into refugees, I regret that
we must choose the latter.  If only you loved your people as much as
you hate ours, this war would never have happened.



To the rest of the world: Israel has tired of your ceaseless chidings
that we should "show restraint".  When you have your entire population
under constant missile fire from an implacable enemy whose stated goal
is the murder every man, woman and child in your land, then you may
come and talk to us about "restraint".  Until then, we respectfully
suggest that you keep your double standards to yourselves.  This time,
Hamas has gone too far, and we will do whatever we have to in order to
protect our population.

Hamas, once again, I thank you for bringing our people together with
such clarity of mind and unity of purpose.  The people of Israel do
not fear the long road ahead.