Growing up I heard the old adage...follow the money to understand what is really going on in politics, culture and corruption.
Why would Hamas intentionally jab Israel and the IDF with the sharpest of sticks by kidnapping and killing the three Yeshiva boys and then start launching an even greater number of rockets fired indiscriminately into Israeli communities? Hamas had to know the IDF would respond but to most rational people, that makes no sense. Why ask for the beating? It is a means to an end.
Hamas had learned from watching events here in the west and decided to use the race hustlers' playbook. It goes like this. Find a cause, rush in with all the outrage you can muster, demand money, get paid and move on. The likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton has done this for years. Find a group or organization, become outraged and accuse them of being racist (for which any denial is called proof because only a racist would deny it), demand payment from them or risk continuing to be called racist, get paid and move on without solving any real problems. That is the con. The groups they claim to help or defend are really of little consequence.
Hamas leadership views the actual residents of Gaza as being of little consequence. They can be sacrificed as they are a means to a monetary end. They knew Israel would pummel the region in order to defend itself. They left Israel no other option. Thats the con. Hamas continues to spew it racist hatred for Jews and Israelis. They indoctrinate children from the youngest of ages to hate Jews, just for being Jews. They foment the hatred to a fevered pitch. Hamas forces the residents of Gaza to shield their activities or risk being killed by Hamas itself. Hamas demands an end the blockade of some goods entering Gaza that prevents Hamas from bringing in weapons of war in greater quantities. Hamas has demanded the UN and other countries pay money to build and rebuild Gaza over and over. Anyone who balks at that demand....well you are told you are a racist and you hate muslims. It gets even better for Hamas. Little of the money they extort, from the UN, reaches the people it is intended for in Gaza. Hamas leadership controls the flow of goods in and out of Gaza and taxes every import. The cowardly Hamas leadership and their families live large as rock stars in other countries like Qutar, without getting their actual hands dirty. Apparently only young foot soldiers make the best martyrs. Hamas leadership have become millionaires and billionaires in a very short period of time off the money contributed by the world at large and taxing all imported goods into Gaza. Hamas doesn't protect the citizens or do anything to make their lives better with the money. The poorer they make the people look, they more money the world will contribute and the more they make. There is the money trail.
By goading Israel into firing at all parts of Gaza, Hamas has guaranteed the flow of money. Hamas doesn't want the blockade to end any more than the rabbit didn't want to be thrown into the briar patch. The destruction of Gaza, started by Hamas' decisions, will serve as a constant daily source of hatred for Israeli's by the people of Gaza and sympathy of the UN and the UNHRC which is so eager to blame Israel for everything. Through violence against its own people and against Israel, Hamas will retain its position as the faux savior of the Palestinian people. For its own safety and protection, Israel has no choice but to continue the blockade that will ensure the steady stream of taxes with which Hamas leader, Khaled Meshaal and his family, enrich themselves. Until the world condemns Hamas, ends their funding, and destroys it completely, the Hamas con will go on and on and on. All the while the actual people of Gaza, whom Hamas claims to be fighting for, continue to be treated as of little consequence.
