Lets try a different one.  The Middle East is a biker bar.  Israel is the biggest, meanest, baddest biker in the bar.  The Palestinians are a 98 pound weakling wannabe.  They come in and sit at the end of the bar talking trash, that the big biker doesn't have the right to be in the bar, and the next time they come in, the floor will be paved with the big bikers blood.  Eventually they screw their courage up and go start punching the biker in the arm.  Initially, the big biker pushes them away gruffly.  When they immediately come back, the big biker pounds the 98 pound weakling into a pulp.  If you objectively witnessed this scene, who would you blame?  Fact is, sometimes you get what you ask for.  It is tragic that all of Gaza suffers because of Hamas' actions, but the Palestinians did elect these terrorists.