re: #5 imp_62

There are untold layers of complexity which go unreported by the standard media outlets, as the assumption is that the “consumer” of news is interested in blood and guts, a morality play with a villain and a hero, and generally is equipped with a very short attention span. The conditions Israel must create, or allow to develop, in Gaza and the WB are those that enable capital and investment to be attracted by non-terror projects. That’s why hotels and malls are good, and the IDF will do whatever they can to avoid damaging non-terror infrastructure. It is never about “collective punishment”, as much as that is a leftist trope, because collectively, Gazans import escalators and chickens. Individually, Hamas terrorists are part of the old “bad” capital structure which lives off terror investments. It’s that simple, and that boring. Israel does not actually care if Hamas runs Gaza, as long as Gaza is being geared towards attracting non-terror investment. The House of Saud, the Turks, the Egyptians - all anti-Semitic regimes. But Israel doesn’t care, because of the above.

The highlighted language is where the problem exists. If only Hamas was interested in running Gaza in order to build a local economy and society, Israel would not only “not care”, it would happily assist. Unfortunately, to Hamas, there is no such thing as non-terror investment. To Hamas, all investments, including general business investments, are merely a means to raising the funds and creating the resources needed in pursuit of its neo-genocidal aim of destroying the Jewish state and killing as many Jews as it can in the process.