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I would have thought that a man of your intellect would not stoop to treating the Arab world as a single, undifferentiated mass. Egypt and Jordan fought multiple wars with Israel and then reached a durable peace, to the point that Egypt warned Israel that Hamas was up to something before the attacks.
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The aggregation works here because it's all (ostensibly, or as justification) about the Palestinians. Every war was waged in significant part if not entirely to liberate those people (whom no other Arab country is willing to accept, including currently, Egypt). At issue here is not whether some Arab nations have reached peace with Israel - it's whether historically Israel has tried time and time again to give the Palestinians a solution, and to live in peace, only to be attacked or had peace efforts scuttled at the last minute because of bad faith actors such as Arafat, who were more interested in keeping their power and personal fortunes (which accrue only from conflict).
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Isn't it pretty to think so? This is the triumph of wishful rhetoric over thought. There are all sorts of other subjects where you would be all over someone who said something this insipid.
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That was emotionally written. So the phrasing was a bit hackneyed and naive. Fair enough.
But the crux of it is not wrong. Israelis, and Palestinians not involved with Hamas, are good and decent people.
However, one group is actively now and has actively in the past sought to avoid civilian casualties. Israel does not want to go into Gaza. Israel wanted to focus on a peace deal with the Saudis. It does not want to kill innocent Palestinians.
Hamas, OTOH, intentionally ringed a rave and murdered Israeli civilians, brutally. They did so with glee. And to what end? To get Israel to retaliate - to attack and kill Palestinians, which cannot now be entirely avoided.
And most disgustingly, Hamas will use its own people as human shields. It will fire rockets from the tops of schools and hospitals to attempt to get Israeli radar to trace back the source and obliterate those buildings.
Hamas is not only murdering Israelis, but also its own people, for one reason and one reason alone. To destroy the Saudi peace deal, which would marginalize Hamas. And where is Hamas' leadership while this takes place? Qatar. Are they in the trenches with their pathetic brainwashed soldiers, their cannon fodder? Not a chance.
So yes, in this mess, the Israelis are the good and decent people. And Hamas deserves to be cleansed from the planet. And that is not rhetoric. There should be no Hamas prisoners taken. Yes, many are dimwitted young men maleducated in jihadist nonsense. But they are poisoned, and there is no fixing these people. They are human garbage, like ISIS. The only option is to kill every last one of them. May be incredibly difficult, but that's not a reason not to try.
ETA: Try to imagine the Israelis attacking Gaza and using their own people as human shields. Could that even happen? No. It's impossible to imagine, because Israelis have western values. They value their countrymen. The values of whatever "culture" creates a thing like Hamas are clearly defective in some fundamental regards.
You often accuse me of equating the Right here with the Left. Whataboutism. Well, I admit, and will once more do so here - the Right here is far more demented than the Left. The delta between the two is significant. And using your critical analysis to assess the validity of the argument that Israel and Hamas are on anything even approaching equal footing - which a ton of people in this country (not infrequently moronic college students) are doing - the mere suggestion of equivalence fails miserably. The delta between what Hamas is, and what it did, and Israel is canyon sized.
