best for all before sneaking in your true motive. I don't think removing Hamas will improve the situation because who would take their place? While it's true that Hamas took over by force, it's also true that before that they won a majority in parliament. People tend to excuse it as a vote against the corruption of Fatah, but the fact is Hamas was not the only opposition party. If the Arab public were more liberal minded they would have voted for a more liberal party than Fatah (nevermind Hamas), but liberal parties got a miniscule percentage of the vote, which means the majority of the people have a radical outlook. This is the real root cause of all the problems in the Middle East, not just the Arab-Israeli conflict. People prefer to deny this simple, yet now (post-"Arab Spring") obvious, truth because it means there is no readily available solution in the foreseeable future. Blaming Israel is simply the path of least resistance since Israel can be pressured and threatened, and it's a small country people can hope will be exterminated all together thereby supposedly solving all their problems, while recognizing the massive rise of Islamism means recognizing the West is facing a really huge problem involving many states, huge populations and a large part of the world's natural resources, a problem that can't be solved in the near future. So people prefer to maintain the illusion for as long as possible, even at a far higher cost than