The people in the gaza strip dont suffer because of the choices of the Hamas, they suffer because of the choices of Israel and the IDF. Your countrys leaders and the zionist lobby are trying to tell everyone that the recent outbreak of violence has been started by Hamas, when it clearly was not. I gave you a link by Norman Finkelstein, maybe you should listen to his reason for once. Most of the people base their opinion on a lack of information or an abundance of disinformation. You are very young and you believe everything you are being told by the immense pressure of media, parents and peers. Yet the things you have been told, are not true at all. I urge you and others, to inform yourself more on the conflict and Norman Finkelstein is a very good place to start.
analysis of the recent events:
http://www.c-span.org/video/?320736-1/book-discussion-old-wine-broken-bottlehomepage of norman finkelstein:
http://normanfinkelstein.com/What do you expect a whole nation of people that are stripped of their lands, forced to live under the most extreme conditions, imprisoned and en-ghettoed by an occupying force, disenfranchized, humiliated and beaten up to do?
There are some of your countrymen that have left the IDF, or refused to be a tool in the slaughter of innocents. Their conscience decision has made them outcasts of a lunatic society, their couragous abstainment of violence has made them criminals. They have been labeled traitors of Israel, when in fact they are heroes to all mankind.
2003:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/sep/25/israelrecent:
http://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/About the argument that the Hamas is to blame for all the devastation that the IDF was "forced" to commit in the recent war against gaza :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OHMkfROH38E
Edited 8/12/2014 12:47:46