Actually, yes. Throw the word "terrorist" around as much and as ignorantly as you want, but the extremism of groups like Hamas has its roots in the decades of zionism running rampant and killing thousands of their people every year.

No one (sane) is defending the Hamas, merely noting that when your counter terror operation has managed to kill more innocents than the terrorists maybe you should stop and rethink your operation a little bit. If some people break into your house and hold you at gunpoint while they fire a rpg that gets shot down by an active defense system, i don’t think that you’ll be very happy the the governments only response is to blow up your house a half hour after they’ve left.

Clearly both sides want the other wholly and completely gone. That is, the extremist leaders. I'm sure the viewpoints across the general public varies wildly on both sides and is fed by their own internal propaganda.

My question is, why do any of us outside that region care? If you are not from that region, or do not have some kind of ties to that region, then why should anyone care so much what they do to each other? And I don't care about religion. "Oh its a religious area so Christians care or something." That doesn't justify meddling over there.