Yes, you are correct here - but Janice does the piece no favours when she says: "It's hard to brush all of this aside as propaganda—perhaps especially the brutal glee shown by Hamas fighters and Palestinian civilians alike." This equates Palestinians (2 million people) with Hamas: a group many oppose. Meaning civilians are terrorists. We saw the same thing during the Vietnam War, when any able-bodied person became VietCong in the eyes of the US Marines: man, woman, child. This was the logic of the My Lai Massacre. "Palestinians are human animals" (says an IDF spokesman) is a short walk to "Palestinians are animals" and such talk always, always precedes a genocide: from Auschwitz to Rwanda.

So I'm disappointed by this piece. Fiamengo's alignment with Zionist narrative hurts the point she is trying to make - and it's a solid point. It gets lost. She needs to remember that not everybody who follows her work is conservative. I am a former liberal who thinks they are now insane. And I will, once again, point out the fact that the Palestinian civilians, owners of that "brutal glee" have an average age of 17 years old. Doesn't that bother people? It might, and it might not.