There are some remarkable scenes coming out of Gaza:

Seth Mandel writes in Commentary:

Gazans have not have been fully honest in public. There’s a reason for that. To take just one example, Amin Abed was nearly beaten to death with hammers for criticizing Hamas. Abed was saved by bystanders, so presumably the intention was to finish him off. During the cease-fire, Hamas members bragged about executing “collaborators” and filmed themselves shooting civilians.

Which is what makes yesterday’s protests all the more significant. To protest Hamas in public is to take one’s life in one’s hands. That is especially true because the protests were bound to be filmed, in order to get the message out to the world. The reason the world needs to hear that message is that Westerners have been Hamas’s willing propaganda tools. The protests on campus are not “pro-Palestinian,” they are pro-Hamas—and the people of Gaza are Hamas’s victims. Which means the anti-Zionist protest movement around the world objectively sides against the victims and civilians in Gaza. . . .

Even Gazans know that it isn’t Israel’s desire for war but Hamas’s. If Palestinians in Gaza don’t fall for the moral equivalence between Hamas and Israel, what excuse do Americans have?

The answer is none. No one, anywhere, has any excuse to even attempt to equate Hamas and Israel. And the instant that a Palestinian in Gaza has the slightest opening to be honest, they say so plainly. Israel’s existence does not necessitate war; Hamas’s does.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. And Gaza, too.