Hamas believes that killing Jews is a prerequisite to redemption.

 

 

The essential problem with Hamas is not the missiles and rockets it showers on Israel, but the core belief that killing Jews is a prerequisite to redemption. Hamas's ongoing attempts to kill Jews, which have led to the current Gaza War, are a symptom of the far deeper problem -- the ideology teaching that Allah demands the extermination of Jews. Israel and the West must create a strategy not only to destroy the terror infrastructures of Hamas, but to ultimately ensure that Jews and the world are safe from this ideology and its consequences. In order to understand why Israel went to a defensive war against Hamas just open :

http://sderot.aish.com/SderotPetitions/MissilesFromGaza.php