Entitlement causes war

Why does no one speak up that entitlement is just wrong?

Israel launched it's ground offensive into Gaza today. All I have heard out of the media for the last week during Israel's aerial bombardment of Gaza is how war is not the solution: there must be a ceasefire and a political solution.

But that political solution is really dealing with entitlement. It doesn't matter if it's bankers on Wall street feeling entitled, or gangs in a big cities, racial issues on large or little scales or even a group like a union feels that are oppressed. Heck, even English and French Canadians want to separate because they feel entitled to not deal with each other. If someone believes they are entitled to something, there's gonna be trouble. Sometimes revolution is required to stop being a doormat and bring change. Been lots of good revolutions. But as soon as entitlement takes over, war begins, to take something you believe is yours.

Where is Hamas on this subject? Israel says it will stop if the rockets stop. Hamas keeps firing. In fact, during the last 6 month 'cease fire', there were 38 rockets fired from Gaza in the first 4.5 weeks. I'm sure there were operations from Israel too, but then in the next 6 weeks 290 rockets and a further 200 plus rockets before the aerial bombardment started. Plus the *kind* of rockets changed from little rockets to bigger rockets that threaten a million Israeli's. Hamas seems to have used the cease fire to get bigger and better weapons to kill Israelis with. They seem pretty bent on a fight to get what they want. They are waging war, are they not? Just not a very good one.

Israel feels entitled to things, so does Hamas. I think Israel's is open to Gaza and the Palestinians as a whole having their own autonomy. Hence, if Hamas stops the attacks, they stop. Hamas, as I understand it, want every Israeli dead and doesn't recognize Israel. They are entitled to death to Israel and to take over Israel to boot.

So where does this leave us? Someone please tell me who can control Hamas, and who can get Hamas to join with the Palestinians (which is in the worst internal mess since 1967) to decide that Israel is a State, and choose to stop fighting. No one has stated a goal from Hamas. Hamas that treats Israel as an equal. Until they stop feeling entitled to kill every Israeli, how can there be peace? Surely Israel will need to lighten up too, but they cannot if their neighbour is trying to kill them.

If you poke a hornets nest, you're gonna get stung. Does that make sense to anyone? Why doesn't the media talk about what people believe they are entitled to? Surely that is the issue here.