How bad is the Hammas victory?

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There were posts made suggesting that Jews got involved out of choice. That their motivation was a seperatist one...or just trying to be better then the other man.

The reality is that the majority of Israel's population houses refuseniks, native sabras, and indigenous North Africans born to the land. They didn't "get involved', they were born with enemies by the sheer fact that they were born Jewish. A great number of these people couldn't gain citizenship anywhere else. That's not a conscious will to feud for no reason, that's trying to co-exist and survive. What was unintentionally inferred is the tired old "Jews are occupiers, and collinized the region" argument followed by "Zionists aren't even really the same Jews who were there in 650CE".

More then half of Jordan is Palestinian, and up until the late 70's few if any Arabs had a Palestinian identity, as Palestine was only a territory. The movement for their nationalism applies a double standard. The majority of their leadership are Egyptian, for example. When the Popular Liberation Front became the Palestinian Liberation Organization, it was probably a gesture they wanted to get involved. Aside from Israel's hilltop youth (which is a tiny recent phenomenon) I can't think of a worse way to describe Israelis then "they wanted to get involved".