Comment by DiscourseFan

The story of Israel and Hamas is a story of the force of modernity overcome by babarism against a barbarism borne from the horror of modernity. The author made an error in believing that barbarism is ever justified for its own sake, as a reaction. Nobody will question that violence is unnecessary for the cause of freedom, but what Hamas did was not tactical, it was an indulgent revenge cloaked in the guise of righteous anger. But personal feelings, percieved wrongs, are meaningless in the real world. The only thing that is right is eliminating the conditions of possibility for such senseless violence, and neither Israel nor Hamas has made any genuine efforts to do so.