As we used to say about the revolutions in Central America in the 1980s, one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. The difference between the IDF and Hamas is what? What has Hamas done that the IDF has not also done? I am not defending Hamas, but I am not defending the IDF either. Innocent people were slaughtered by both, though the U.S. news media seems to concentrate their reporting on the atrocities committed by one of these more than the other.