Do I condemn Hamas? No. For I respect Palestine’s ‘act of free choice’ under exceedingly difficult circumstances.
Free Palestine’s reasons for her choice? Will be many but are likely to include the evidently strongly-and-well-organised societal and health services in Gaza; the general standard of maintenance-of-law-and-order-services across Gaza during those intervals of ‘normal time’ and her robust and necessary condemnation at the manner in which the ‘opposition Abbas PA party’ has allowed itself to be manipulated and ‘made subservient’ to a cruelly despotic and malignant Occupation Movement.
The USA would deny Palestine this, her ‘act of free choice’? Just as she has for long sought to deny the people of Cuba the same?