Hamas are the bad guys in this. Full stop.

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72. If old enough, we've been dealing with this conflict

for over 60 years.

We have a right to look at it overall.

You are claiming this latest round means Palestinians get no empathy for their long term plight, and that it is OK if they are all killed.

There have been many prior occasions where that could have been said.

We are never to have had any sympathy for them. From the beginning, they could have stayed put. Too many of them ran and became refugees because they listened to the Arabs. They would have been treated equally and should have known that. They've been blamed for their plight since the beginning.

Many of them tried to settle in Arab states. It has often been said those neighboring Muslim areas which also spoke Arabic should have accepted them. Yet many of them different. Some of them are fifth generation Saudi Arabian born, and still not considered Saudi citizens (Saudi Arabia isn't the only one like this). Plus their life in those states is highly circumscribed. Yet it is their fault these states would not accept them as birth right citizens and equals.

They've never had much empathy for their plight. Even President Carter got called anti-semitic for giving them some.