The way I view this is they were stating what they feel is the truth. With the Palestinians people, you have the same you have with most of the Muslim community. You have some extremist who preach the violence and terrorist acts, but you also have some of the community who wants peace. It is wrong to lump the entire society into one, but that is what happens with any religious group. Look at the Catholics who had the priest sexual abuse scandal in the US. All priest were viewed as sexual abusers and to a certain extent still are.
Don't look at it as Muslim issue. Our cause is a nationalist cause. We don't have any extremists. Keep in mind our first ever military wings were Marxist/Secular. Islamic parties in Palestine are relatively new. Our first armed struggle was conducted by PLO then PFLP. The founder of PFLP was a Palestinian Christian, his name is George Habash. Today our strongest arm is Hamas. Hamas is not extremist, you can't go to an ISIS controlled area and expect to come out safe. You can come to Gaza anytime you want and interview Hamas. Hamas has no global agenda against Westerners. It has contacts with Jimmy Carter and other Western ex-Politicans who recognize our Palestinian rights.
Its not about peace. You see , the 'peace you're talking about and the 'peace' we see currently is an uncontensted Israeli colonization. The reason it seems peaceful right now is because Israel's very powerful and Palestinians in West Bank have no means to defend their selves. This is a struggle to defend our land and we have the right to use mikitay means in defense until the Israeli occupation comes to an end. Look at the summer assault on Gaza that took placece in 2014. Israel was wrecking civilians with impunity. Hamas and the Palestinian resistance on other hand targeted only Israeli combatants when it made tactical operations through tunnels against the Israeli army. Look up Nahal Oz operation. Every time only combatants were targeted even though we could have easily targeted Israeli civilians.
Palestinians only fire rockets becausebtheyre our only means to stop normal life in Israel as Israel has stopped normal life in Palestine. If we can't sleep at night, then they should also not be able to. Our rockets are very small, and don't contain warheads. Most of time they're shot down, they'rd only fired to damage Israeli economy and disrupt life. Not to damage civilians. We could acquire more lethal weapons or resort to suicide bombing but we don't because our struggle is one that is legitimate and we want to send message to international community that we want our rights back. Israeli bombs on other hand are intended to cause mass casualties/damage to our cities. And in order to make our population terrified and submissive to Israel.
