re: #3 Obdicut

I don’t think it’s true to claim that Hamas is often portrayed as a benign presence.

And this should remind those who are exhorting the Palestinians to rise up and throw off Hamas what the risks of trying to do that are.

The Palestinians don’t need us to remind us. They remember the Fatah members shot and thrown off rooftops during the Hamas coup a few years ago. That said, we tend to delude ourselves in the West that there is necessarily a significant number of people who even want to throw of Hamas.