"yet Hamas chose not to talk. Let them suffer for it"

Well, it takes mighty big balls to sit down with a sworn enemy and thrash out at settlement by negotiation, and if no-one has the balls then they will continue in their cycle of violence until someone with a degree of integrity comes to take hold.

This is all due to religion. The 'Holy Land' has been abandoned by whatever God these people profess to worship and everyone is now neck-deep in in the gore of innocents. But then some like it that way.