He’s not equivocating the tactics of Hamas nor condoning them. He stated they are clearly different causes. But he is acknowledging the repressive tactics on the Palestinian people by an opposing dominant force that responds by punishing all the people. The atrocity Hamas committed on the good Jewish people is clear, but now there are American Predator hunter drones circling above and undoubtedly not for humanitarian purposes but to target Hamas as they drive in ambulances, like the one just hit. The Pentagon has some untrustworthy excuse. One quarter of the housing is destroyed in Gaza city, devastating a population. These overwhelming tactics of response is consistent with the Israeli that, which even many of its people oppose, constantly stealing land in the West Bank and breaking all treaties. Ask the Native Indigenous: there was a never a single treaty made with the white man that the white man didn’t break.