Spare us the rag of your tears. Jewish gangs (Stern and others) were killing off British soldiers and others before WW II ended. You state “Hamas’s stated goal is the complete destruction of Israel….”, but aren’t ethical enough to say the say thing about Israel’s destruction of Palestine, which, by the way, was recognized in 47/48 by the U.N. as much as was ‘Israel’. And without the U.S. to cover for you, the Palestinians would have their own state. It is ‘Israel’ that is continuing to kill Palestinians during this ‘truce’ – which is much to be expected of them.