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Yep, pretty much. Understanding why Hamas is retaliating does mean anyone thinks the retaliation in question is justifiable. It just means understanding why it's happening.

Does Israel need to completely lay down their arms and let Palestine steamroll them? Of course not. They do, however, need to stop being such oppressive assholes. Palestinians join and support Hamas because they're desperate and pissed off. Significantly fewer people would be desperate and pissed off if they weren't on the wrong side of an apartheid state. There's still inevitably going to be a lot of "the Jews shouldn't even be here" sentiment as a consequence of how Israel came about, because such shenanigans are never going to go over well, but Israel can and should be doing significantly more to generate good will instead of actively making life as terrible as they can for Palestinians.