David Quinn, a member of the Iona Society and former Editor of the Irish Catholic, posed this question on July the 5th:

“Let’s assume you’re Israel, Now how would you remove the threat from Hamas post-Oct 7 when Hamas is not interested in a two-state solution and wants to destroy you?”

The  assumption that “you are Israel” is a very large assumption, and Quinn gives you no hint of what you would be if you were Israel.  So Let us help ‘you’ !

You would be a Jewish nationalist, and would be certain that God gave you Palestine a few thousand years ago, with a permament right of Ownership, regardless of residence in it;

that he helped you to conquer and colonise it and instructed you to wipe out the peoples living in it before you came along;

that you did as he instructed you but then let it slide away from you while you spent a couple of thousand years while you transacted business elsewhere;

and that you then remembered your duty and set about conquering it again, and doing to the interlopers who had occupied it in your absence what Joshua had done all those milleniums ago.

That is who you would be if you were Israel.

If you assume otherwise, you will not be dealing with the question David Quinn put to you.  He did not ask you what you, as a Gentile, would do if you were somehow put in command of the state of Israel.  He did not ask you that because the assumption that a Gentile could be Israel is an absurd assumption.

The answer to the question is that, if you were Israel, you would be a Jewish nationalist conqueror and coloniser of Palestine, half way through the second conquest and absolutely committed to carrying it through in the way that God commanded, despite the disobedient resistance of the Gentile natives.