The one thing I don't hear from these people in Gaza being interviewed is their denunciation of Hamas.
They elected Hamas, they got Hamas. They built rockets instead of power plants, water supplies and food stocks. Good luck eating and drinking those rockets and enjoy that new parking lot the Israelis are going to build in Gaza.
We’re witnessing the end of any kind of viable Palestinian statehood movement. The fiction that slaughtering children is some kind of legitimate “resistance” is insane. No one, at least in my lifetime, will want to give independence to a gang of medieval horror movie villains.
The blockaded Arab territories at perpetual war with Israel, with no willingness for peace, are not a suppressed ethnic minority because of their race, but a hostile entity controlled, with as little force as possible, which is never little enough to satisfy those who always take the side of the weak, no matter that they have a political ideology of genocide.
Or, put it another way, how would you feel if the people next door made it their stated goal to murder you and your entire family no matter what you did to appease them?
The fact that Hamas won't open their underground bunkers to the people of Gaza, that they have intentionally set up their military assets where those civilians live tells you everything you need to know.
There's a reason why there's a big fence around Gaza.
For anyone who thinks the IDF is engaging in a war of extermination: if they were, they’re being awfully polite about it. If the IDF was intentionally targeting civilians, every Palestinian in Gaza would already be dead.
The idea that, if someone starts a war with you, they can avoid fighting by locating their military bases near where humans live is so insane that I don't even know what to say about it.
You have to expect there’s going to be civilian casualties when your government decides to erect rocket batteries in your front yard.
And as for their elected leaders, the children of Hamas leaders literally drive Lamborghinis and Rolls-Royces and live in mansions in Qatar and Europe. Hamas leaders are worth billions of dollars.
They are as far removed from Gaza as they could ever be.
At some point the people of Gaza need to ask themselves a question: is this government promoting my general welfare?
Clearly the answer is no and that they have not made any attempt to rectify that situation tells you something.
As Thomas Jefferson once said, “But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”