Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared that Israel will only end its war on Hamas when the group ceases to exist in Gaza. It is a reasonable ambition. After all, the United States eradicated Puerto Rican terrorists who were once so bold to shoot up the U.S. Capitol. Vietnam ended the Khmer Rouge’s brutal and racist reign of terror in Cambodia. In 1970, King Hussein, the father of current King Abdullah II, expelled the Palestine Liberation Organization after it tried to seize power.

Hussein’s move returned stability to the kingdom, but it condemned Lebanon. Not only did the PLO turn their guns on Lebanese, but repeated PLO terrorism against Israel also precipitated the Jewish state’s 1982 invasion of the country and its creation of a buffer zone.