Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzouk spelled it out. Questioned in an interview on Russia Today about all those tunnels – "Since you have built 500 kilometers of tunnels, why haven't you built bomb shelters, where civilians can hide during bombardment?" – he replied that they're just for Hamas fighters. The people of Gaza, as refugees, are the responsibility of the UN. Nothing to do with us.
Egyptian TV host Ibrahim Eissa is horrified. Marzouk's statement is "insolent and disgraceful" because the number one responsibility of a government is to provide security for its people. "Obviously, Marzouk is saying all this while sitting in Qatar". If Hamas will not protect its people, it should step down from government.
If one of the reasons for the Hamas pogrom was to bring the Arab states onside and scupper any chances of a rapprochement between them and Israel, then it doesn't seem to be working. This isn't the only indication I've seen that the Arab world has little sympathy now for Hamas – or of course for its Iranian backers.
Strangely, the most receptive audience for the Hamas atrocities is here in the West, where the massacre of Israelis has been greeted with an enthusiasm bordering on joy for large sections of "liberal" opinion. The demos keep on coming, and the antisemitism keeps on rising. Did Hamas foresee that? Did we foresee that?
Mick Hartley 
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