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Neither is Israel alone in limiting Hamas’s freedom to act as it will. In 2007, Hamas seized Gaza from the Palestinian Authority in a violent coup, leading the Palestinian Authority — the sole official representative of the Palestinians — to prevent Gazans from travelling by denying them passports. Egypt, too, sealed its border crossing with Gaza and largely kept it sealed to prevent terrorism from spilling into Egypt. Hamas is today the darling of jihadists and the European left but a pariah to Egypt, the Palestinian Authority, and the Arab League as well as to Israel. Its pariah status among moderate Arabs stems solely from its religiously motivated desire to terrorize its neighbours rather than to develop its economy. This terror-orientation is the sole reason that curbs are placed on Gazans.

Gaza does not need to be economically deprived. The 3,000 greenhouses that Israel left behind employed 3,500 Gazans and exported high-value fruits, vegetables and flowers to Europe. Had the greenhouses not been looted for their glass and piping when the Israelis left, and had Gaza invested in building up industries rather than in digging out tunnels, Gaza could still be producing these crops and more. The EU would gladly support Gazans by buying their produce rather than by sending them ever more amounts of humanitarian aid.

Gazans don’t suffer from a state of siege, imposed by Israel and Egypt; they suffer from a state of mind, imposed upon themselves, that prefers a government committed to converting their land into the world’s largest terrorist launching pad instead of into a Singapore on the Mediterranean. Until Gazans themselves lift the siege and choose to export goods rather than terrorism, they will remain in a prison of their mind.

The guy who said that must have been suffering sleep deprivation . Israelis pull one "miracle" out of the bag each war . Just like Hamas will claim they won , 101 of fighting arab / Israeli war ,happens every time . (google has picked a winner , it put the capital on Israeli but not arab )

What absolute hogwash.

Yes, Hamas seized control of Gaza from the PLO in a violent coup. And Israel funded and armed that coup. Hamas is, and has always been owned by Israel. The PLO was secular and had a lot of support worldwide as the legitimate struggle of a people imprisoned in their own land by foreign invaders. Israel created Hamas, and set them in place to serve as the "religious fanatic" enemy that no country on earth would dare support. It's exactly the same thing the US did when it created the Mujahedin who later morphed into Al Qaeda. It's so handy to create your own enemy "terrorists". You can always count on them to fire harmless rockets just when you want to launch a massacre. Of course you have to furnish the rockets to them.

Lawrence-Solomon. Another Jewish impartial written article.