Hamas is making the most of the materials they have to hand, their own media outlet, the international media, the rockets they obtained over (or under) the Gaza-Egyptian border, the bodies of their people, the bodies of every Israeli victim they can obtain, and an overall strategy not unlike that of the Algerians in "Battle of Algiers".

Unfortunately for everyone, the ideological battle is kept alive by ignoring context. Ignoring the frequent attempts over the years to obtain a peace under the Aegis of America, and the many many attempts at terror from the Arabs.

The Palestinian people are not landholders with legal rights. They are DP (Displaced People). No one wants to take responsibility for them, and they are not making themselves an attractive proposition for anyone, least of all for Israel. Rather than seek an outlet where an outlet may be found or made, they double down on the proposition that they can get Israel down not to 1967 borders, but to pre-1948 non-existence.

Isolating Israel on the part of the world community, if that is what is going on, is only going to make things worse for the Palestinians. An insecure Israel is simply going to insist on an even less secure Palestine.

So there is a level at which the current festivities play to Israel's perception, that Hamas would rather shoot than talk, that every uninspected shipment to Gaza is suspect, that under the administration of Gaza by Hamas even construction materials are war materiel.

Israel tells Hamas you can keep your rockets