Hamas has to go or there will be no Palestinian state. Letting Hamas take credit for the end of the blockade will undermine Abbas. Elections that allow terrorist participation are invalid, so the Hamas election victory are invalid. The creative and productive communities in Gaza will be betrayed if Israel does not get rid of the criminals who ruin the life of Gaza as well as that in southern Israel. Also, people still remember the Pueblo and the attack against the Anglo American school sounds worse. Israel should never have harmed the iconic international schools and United Nations’ institutions, especially as they were refuge to people fleeing both Hamas and Israeli bombs. These weren’t those who chose to die martyrs to the terrorist cause. The few rockets fired from these areas were meant to attract return fire to both incite international rebuke agains Israel, and destroy the refugees the Hamas leaders do not like. These places should have been ignored until the rest of the territory was pacified. Seems also Israel warns people to leave their homes and then bombs their refuge. Anyway, it’s hard to believe Israel is not going to finish off Hamas. Maybe the US should have returned the presidency of Ira