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This is what I don't understand is so hard for people. It's not like Israel has always been there, in that spot in in the Middle East, and that Palestinians teleported into Gaza and the West Bank unannounced one day. Gazans are basically refugees shoved in a tiny plot of territory carved out of what used to be their homeland, walled in, and brutally repressed for almost sixty years now. This doesn't excuse Hamas targeting innocents, but it goes a very long way towards explaining why Gaza might be home to a hardline anti-Israeli guerilla organization that sees the lives of their own people as cheap and those of their enemies as valueless. That's kinda the dynamic that the Israelis forced onto them, and now they're all up in arms that Hamas is acting accordingly.
Don't get me wrong, Hamas are still bad guys in this particular episode. But that sure as shit doesn't make Israel the good guys. There are only villains and victims here.