Dude Hamas on record was created by Israel to have controlled opposition. They exist to keep the area destabilized and in a state of conflict until the people there can be wiped out.
This is very very true, and it's a shame so few people understand it.
Not only was Hamas originally created by Israel, as the years go by Israel makes greater and greater efforts to strengthen Hamas and maintain its power in Gaza while weakening Fatah. This can be seen right now in Cairo: Israel is negotiating with Hamas and showing relatively great willingness to make concessions, far beyond anything given to Mahmoud Abbas during the never-ending "negotiations" with the Palestinian Authority. In fact, Israel is going out of its way to give Hamas a PR victory, at least in the eyes of Gazan Palestinians, so the populace would remain pro-Hamas even in the midst of the unimaginable devastation.
Hamas and Israel exist in unholy symbiosis, serving each others' belligerent interests perfectly.
Inhumane weapons such as depleted uranium munitions, White Phosphorous and other experimental weapons are used on the population.
Actually, Israel has stopped using white phosphorous during the latest offensive on Gaza. I suppose pictures from 2009 like
this and
this have proven too troublesome for Israel's propaganda machine.
They have, however, started using a new type of bomb called
DIME. It's ostensibly meant to reduce collateral damage during bombing raids, but in fact it causes
terrible wounds.
Anyway, such inhumane (and internationally illegal) weapons are not very important on the grand scale of things, and there's no point focusing on them. The vast majority of casualties in Gaza were caused by good old-fashioned (and totally conventional) American bombs. Three cheers for the American military-industrial complex, for providing Israel with over $3 billion of armaments each year.
