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I think you're confusing the cause of the general people vs the cause of those aligned against Isreal. The whole Wilsonian "universal values" thing is fragile, it exists in a world of plenty, not in a world of poverty.
I'm not justifying any of their actions, I find terrorisim to be abhorrent and Hamas to be evil in many ways, but I also understand (somewhat) how humans could come to do these things.
Think about US action in Dresden or the atomic attacks in Japan. These clearly were intended to kill large numbers of civilians to crush the will of our opponents. Were they in our interests at the time? Sure they were...but you know where I'm going.
The key is, we can't just look at terrorists as crackpots, because you can never stop all the wackos. The world today is such that a few people can create tremendous harm for the masses if their motivated.
We need policy that places a wedge between the real fanatics and the mainstream. Today we've lost a billion people on the wrong side of the wedge...
-spence
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