bobthened

Because the measures that economists use to measure the economy are not relevant to regular people. GDP tells you nothing about living standards.

The USA has a higher rate of incarceration.

At the same time Israel was releasing Palestinian “prisoners” (largely children and largely imprisoned for petty crimes like throwing stones) they were capturing and imprisoning from the West Bank (where there is no Hamas) roughly the same number of people as they were releasing in Gaza.

The current charter specifically makes a point of saying that that’s not what they want though. Makes a point out of dragging a distinction between Jewish people (they don’t have a problem with) and the Zionist project (which they do have a problem with

Plenty of centrist liberals support Israel’s “war against Hamas”. US president Joe Biden and the Democratic party for example.