Yes, Hamas played right into Netanyahu's hands, gifting him the rational he needed to deal crippling blow to Hamas itself, and inflict untold misery on the Palestinians who elected them. Possibly they did it with Iran's encouragement but in the end, sowing the seeds of Gaza's destruction was their choice to make.

While Trump took the first step down that lead to this path of destruction, but we would not have gotten to where we are now without the enthusiastic help of a cast of cretinous politicians just like him. A pox on all their houses.