How did America and the Allies win against Japan in WW2? Once the USAAF had bombed everything possible in Japan and had actually run out of targets to continue that bombing campaign, still the Japanese did not surrender or show any signs of moving in that direction! Meanwhile notwithstanding the vicious and suicidal resistance by the Japanese Army against the US Pacific campaign, that island campaign had been won and had brought US troops to Okinawa, the closest possible position for an attack on mainland Japan.

The USA did it by using overwhelming force of arms and finally the then new weapons of mass destruction, the atomic bombs! This was no compromise! It was total war that brought total victory – and only one concession was given by the victors and that was that the Emperor could remain.

Like Hamas and many others today, Japan was such a warlike culture for so many centuries that negotiation was never possible until they had been ground into the dirt through massive loss of life.

An aide to the Japanese Minister of Defence present at the signing of the surrender in Tokyo Bay on board the USS Missouri was quoted on seeing the enormous show of strength with hundreds of Allied warships and thousands of aircraft overhead parading on sea and in the sky overhead, “When I watched that I asked myself silently, ‘How on earth did we believe we could win?’ ”

Israel needs to be allowed by this world to take a lesson and emulate that kind of action against Hamas and all who would destroy Israel – and the civilised world must assist in that valiant endeavor!