I'm not allowed to copy/paste from other people's posts in my posts, so I'll just have to answer the questions and hopefully it will not be too difficult to figure out which questions I am answering with which comment.

Why shouldn't they have weapons? Everyone has a right to defend him or herself. Israel has been bombing and shooting the Palestinians in Gaza (and the West Bank) since before Hamas even existed. There is no reason why the Palestinians should be the only ones who are entirely defenseless.

If Israel is going to destroy the tunnels, they have an obligation under international law to allow food to enter Gaza through other means. They are not doing this.

Yes, there was a problem before Hamas started lobbing missles into Israel. That's part of the reason Hamas started lobbing missles into Israel.

As I said before, they can only bring so much food into Gaza through the tunnels. They don't have to bring in all that much material in order to have enough weapons to do what they have been doing. But bringing enough food into Gaza to feed almost a million and a half people every day through the tunnels is not feasible.

Israel destroyed Gaza's economy by maintaining a stranglehold on Gaza's borders, air space, and coastline. People can't even fish any more because Israel won't allow fishing boats to go where the fish are.

The Palestinians were not kicked out of Jordan. They have been living in the area that is now Israel for more than a thousand years. Jordan has no beef with Israel because that country conspired with Israel to carve up the land that was supposed to go to the Palestinians and divide it with Israel. And this is what happened.

Israel can't wreck Jordan's economy because Jordan is a sovereign state with control of its own borders, unlike Gaza.