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Hamas is getting exactly what it wanted. For years it based itself in civilian enclaves in Gaza and from those points, launched thousands of rockets into Israel's southern cities. No country, including the USA, would stand by while terrorists across its border launched missiles at its populace.
Hamas was and is a terrorist organization, and when the Palestinians elected them their leaders, Hamas continued to engage in terrorist acts against Israel. It finally provoked Israel into this assault, and the Palestinians are paying a terrible price both for their mistake in electing Hamas, and for Hamas' bloody obsession with destroying Israel, regardless of the doom they have knowingly brought to the people they allegedly care about.
