Nothing that's "modern" about Israel can only be preserved by slaughtering Palestinian children. NONE of what's being done in the West Bank and Gaza can be called "self-defense" any longer- it's about subjugating and wiping out an entire people- it's never been about "Hamas", and Hamas wouldn't be in the position of influence it's in now if Netanyahu hadn't spent decades "bolstering"(his word) that organization in order to weaken Fatah, when Fatah was the most reasonable Palestinian leadership Israel was ever going to face- it had started proposing a two-state solution in the 1980s, and Israel should just have taken what it proposed then, rather than insisting on trying to delegitimize Fatah when there was no chance that delegitimizing it would ever produce any better Palestinian leadership and when there's always been no chance of ever getting a Palestinian leadership that would ever accept not getting a state at all and getting nothing but the humiliating Likud "autonomy" proposal, the one that would give Palestinians no more autonomy than Tibet has from China.