Many have seen graphic video of Palestinians been killed or injured by Israeli attacks. The justification was to sensitize people to the perceived atrocities committed by the Israelis. As someone who does support Israel and believes that Hamas is mainly responsible for the violence situation, I take offense at the implication that I (and people like me) don't care about the suffering and loss of life of the Palestinian people. I think it's important to understand what sort of leadership (or lack thereof) Hamas is providing for the people of Gaza. I will illustrate this with a series of videos.
President Obama points out:
Palestinians have to suffer through the checkpoint system, the barriers, the fenced-in wall that exists just to get to their jobs, often times to travel from north and south even within the west bank. It's created enormous hardship for them - there is high unemployment and the economy is not doing as well as it should. Unfortunately the Palestinians, through Yasser Arafat, suffered from leadership that seemed to be more interested in the rhetoric of Israel's destruction and less interested in actually constructively creating a peaceful solution to the problem and focusing on delivery of services to the Palestinian people.
Palestinians have to suffer through the checkpoint system, the barriers, the fenced-in wall that exists just to get to their jobs, often times to travel from north and south even within the west bank. It's created enormous hardship for them - there is high unemployment and the economy is not doing as well as it should.
Unfortunately the Palestinians, through Yasser Arafat, suffered from leadership that seemed to be more interested in the rhetoric of Israel's destruction and less interested in actually constructively creating a peaceful solution to the problem and focusing on delivery of services to the Palestinian people.
The first three videos are short and each addresses the issue of Hamas using civilians as human shields. The last video is about 10 minutes and shows Palestinians at a wedding being executed by Hamas for playing music. Later in the video we see a separate incident where Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israel are being executed by Hamas.