Yes, Hamas is mostly to blame, but that doesn’t mean that every effort possible should be made – by the international community, the US and Israel – to help extract the Gazans from their despair.
Ivanka Trump at the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem (L), and a wounded Palestinian is evacuated during a protest at the Israel-Gaza border in the southern Gaza Strip (R). May 14, 2018(photo credit: REUTERS + MARC ISRAEL SELLEM)ByDAVID BRINN