I've read nearly everything Gottlieb has written on this subject. He has displayed no humanity towards ordinary Palestinians, no acknowledgement that the vast majority of Palestinians are NOT part of Hamas or other armed groups, have no means of getting Hamas out of power- believe me, I'm no fan of Hamas or any of the other Palestinian leadership(s)- and no willingness to admit that there is any undeserved suffering being inflicted by ordinary Palestinians.

I've said repeatedly- and so have MOST people in the Palestine solidarity movement- that what happened on October 7th was a monstrous crime. Gottlieb doesn't acknowledge that nobody but Hamas itself is responsible for that crime, and doesn't seem to care that, even if it were possible to completely crush that organization- spoiler alert, it's not- there's no chance that doing so can cause anything to happen other than creating a new, more violent, more extreme would be "leadership" pledged to avenge Hamas' humiliation.

It's why it is crucially important not to humiliate anybody in this conflict.

Gottlieb has divorced himself from any notion of common humanity by treating his obsession with crushing Hamas as outweighing any other possible consideration- as outweighing the fact that ordinary Gazans and Palestinians could not have prevented October 7th, that massive civilian casualties will inevitably swell the ranks of all armed organizations, and that the most effective way of actually ending this conflict would be to offer ordinary Palestinians HOPE- offer them some reason to believe that they would gain something from doing what Netanyahu demands, which is essentially to get themselves slaughtered by the armed groups in a desperate, hopeless, doomed attempt to bring those groups down.

How about, instead of that, actually treating ordinary Palestinians like human beings?

It's never been tried in this conflict, so how could anybody know it can't work? Nothing else HAS worked, after all- every death on both sides has been for nothing.