Reply #2: The Palestinians Chose Hamas Over Fatah - Hamas Has A Prop 8 Type Mandate

[Median Democrat]

While this may be difficult to understand from our perspetive, is this too different from the U.S. where millions of Americans voted for George Bush even after it was proved that the Iraq war was based on a fraudulent intelligence?

The media would like to blame the leaders, but what do the people on the ground in Israel and Gaza want? Do they really want peace? Or, perhaps, the average palestinian version of Joe the Plumber wants to wipe out Israel, and perhaps the Israeli version of Joe the Plumber just wants to wipe out all Palestinians. Perhaps the "leaders" are actually the most civilized voices in this conflict, and the Palestianian Joe Six-Packs want to seriously rumble.

Can you see Joe the Plumber saying we need to negotiate? Perhaps Hamas actually does have a democratic mandate from the Palestinian people to try to wipe out Israel. I am sure if they gathered signatures Proposition 8 style amongst Palestinians, a majority of them would vote "Death to Israel." Likewise, it would be interesting to see a Prop 8 referendum among Israelis regarding whether or not to halt this offensive.