Yes, that was sort of what I had in mind. Hamas and "the Palestinians" are not one and the same thing. Hamas is a specific organization composed of some militant Palestinians...they are not "the Palestinians" in any collective sense. They are an armed political faction. They are not a nation. They are not a people. They are a militant armed political faction with their own agenda. Most Palestinians are not members of Hamas, they are just people trying to survive.

Shall I judge all Blacks by the activities of the Black Panthers? Shall I judge all Jews by the activities of the most militant Zionist group I can name?

No.

That's why I think, BB, that your thread doesn't have a terribly apt title. It implicates "Palestinians". It's not about Palestinians, it's about Hamas.

You would not like to see a thread with a similar title which implicated "Jews"...as if all Jews were just a bunch of liars and bad people. Would you? Such a thread with such a title would not even be allowed on this forum. It would be closed, because it would be deemed (and quite correctly) antisemitic.