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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
What we see today is the consequence of incompatible cultures fighting over their own perceived justices.
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Thus far you’re correct. It is an intractable problem and, sad to say, it is never going to have a political resolution - not in the lifetime of anyone living today. The reasons for that are complex and nuanced and routinely misunderstood, especially by those who think that telling the history from 1948 onwards is an adequate approach to it. It really, really isn’t - the seeds of 1948’s conflict were already decades old by that point.
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Hamas stands fully condemned.
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It does. Today it stands condemned for deploying medieval tactics in its pursuit of statehood (and it is a cold irony that as a state it would stand condemned in international law for behaviour half as egregious as this).
In the longer run, it may yet stand condemned in the eyes of moderate Palestinians, once they realise their dreams of statehood are further away than ever. The re-occupation of Gaza by Israel is now inevitable. Its retaliation against Hamas is likely to be wide-ranging. Gaza will be unrecognisable 18 months from now. I wouldn’t even put money on it continuing to exist at all in the long run.