Guest Lighter, the thing is that this is a grossly misinterpreted statement. I think what is being said is that the government of Israel has to change from oppressive means to a more humanitarian one.

Fortunately or unfortunately, Hamas was democratically elected and this is why Israel is punishing the Palestinians.

I'm not convinced that Hamas would treat Jews the same way. At the beginning of the Ottoman Empire, Jews were accepted, albeit taxed for their views but considered citizens.
Historically this has some precedence. They were more tolerant than was Christianity, historically, that persecuted Jews and destroyed their synagogues and temples by razing them and placing Christian churches on top of them. Evidence of this can be found in Budapest, Hungary.

The rise of Hamas is a reaction against the Israeli government's paranoia,one of the few countries that possess a large nuclear arsenal aside from the U.S. Being afraid of an armed Iran is part of that paranoia. Israel has the capacity to blow Iran hundreds if not thousands times over with their weaponry.

The rationale is that Hamas is lobbing rockets at Israel. The only way this could stop is that Israel could honor a legitimate peace process by eliminating its incursion into the establishment of settler's housing, displacing Palestinian land.

The only way a peace process is possible is if Israel were a good actor and returned its borders to the way it was in 1967 and to stop the new housing.

Netanyahu refuses to do this and thus putting Israel into perpetual conflict with the Palestinians, which he and other Israelis will not honor as a country but instead refers to them as "arabs".