The consensus will emerge from the historical evidence that it was because of the encouragement and misplaced sympathy Hamas received from the West: on the streets, in academia, in media, and in the halls of government in places like Canada, Western Europe and Australia, and from those who wrongly placed the blame for every civilian casualty on Israel. 

They are the ones with blood on their hands who prolonged the captivity of the hostages and the suffering of those in Gaza.