The headline is my summary of this piece published today by the Free Press.
Ever since the Hamas attack on Israel last October, there has been an ongoing argument over whether or not Palestinians (in Gaza and elsewhere) are responsible for the actions of Hamas or merely additional victims of those actions.
My sense of the media landscape is that most national news outlets see Palestinians as victims of Israel with some acknowledgement that Hamas is responsible for Israel’s reaction to the October attack. But even so, the general argument has been that Palestinian civilians are mostly innocents who aren’t responsible for the actions of Hamas.
It’s considered bad form and maybe even an outrage among those on the center-left to suggest that Palestinian civilians are complicit in this. But there really is some evidence that most of those civilians support this. In March I wrote about a…
