They aren't siding with murderers. The point is that it's a waste of time to obsess about getting rid of Hamas or to act as if the Israel/Palestine conflict only exists because of Hamas or that ending Hamas- which may not be possible- will end the conflict. The way to end the conflict is for Israel to start treating ordinary Palestinians decently, to admit they aren't driven solely or even primarily by bigotry, to address the legitimate grievances they have about how they have been treated since at least 1967.

There's no chance of ending it by incessantly screaming "admit you're wrong...admit you're just bigots...admit you've got nothing to be angry about" at ordinary Palestinians.

For a start, why not admit that a lot of them were treated far more harshly in the 1947-48 era that was justified, that it may not have been necessary to destroy ALL of those Palestinian villages, that Palestinians and Arabs hadn't been universally, relentlessly anti-Jewish since the dawn of time?

If nothing else, how about acknowledging that it matters that, in 1945, the Jewish communities in predominately Arab/Muslim countries were essentially unscathed when the Third Reich was defeated, which is a lot more than could be said for how Europe had treated them.

How about admitting that Palestinians never deserved to be, in effect, punished for the actions of the Third Reich, that they couldn't have done anything to prevent the Holocaust and that, contrary to Netanyahu's delusions, the Grand Mufti- a vile character nonetheless- did not give Hitler the idea to exterminate?

Even saying some of those things would help.