> Hamas is an enemy Israel helped create. In the sense that Israel failed to reach a stable endpoint to this conflict once before, in 2009, yes, I suppose this

> Hamas is an enemy Israel helped create. In the sense that Israel failed to reach a stable endpoint to this conflict once before, in 2009, yes, I suppose this is true. They should have destroyed Hamas then, and they didn't. Which would suggest that Israel should finish the job this time.