Go, Israel!

Last week, Israel responded to Hamas's most recent violation of the peace. They're rolling them up, quickly and easily, despite international disapproval.

Excellent work, guys. For what it's worth, you have my full support.

Here's why.

Iran is behind Hamas's choice of timing.

In fifteen more days, Israel's window for taking out Iran's nuclear capabilities will close.

If Hamas can drag out the conflict in the Gaza Strip for that much longer, this conflict that they've started will have served its purpose, and they'll be screaming to the U.N. to come in and force Israel--big, mean, bullying Israel, whose only crime is that they're successful in stopping rocket attacks and other terrorist attacks on their own people in their own country--to ceace fire. The peace that would come from that forced ceace fire would benefit Hamas by allowing them to regroup and attack Israel again when they're up to strength.

Why fifteen more days?

In fifteen more days, President-Elect Obama will take his oath of office. More likely than not, he will side with the U.N., which is, by the way, packed with Israel's enemies, in attempting to force a peace on the region.

And, unless Israel's government has grown a bigger set of balls than it has heretofore shown, Israel will cave to that pressure, because we're pretty much one of the only countries in the entire world that supports it, and thus far, they haven't wanted to lose that support.

They need to push the offensive, and make sure they finish the job in Gaza in time to accomplish what they need to with Iran.

Because, while President-Elect Obama has made noises about putting Israel under the nuclear umbrella with Japan (i.e., a nuclear attack on Israel is a nuclear attack on the U.S.A.), Iran not only won't care that we'll hit them back, but welcome it as the opening shot of the Apocalypse.