Interesting book on that topic, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 Interviews in the early 50s with ten non distinctive Germans who were members of the Nazi Party. Reminiscent of Marge Schott's comment, Everything you read, when he came in he was good. They built tremendous highways and got all the factories going. He went nuts, he went berserk. I think his own generals tried to kill him, didn’t they? Everybody knows he was good at the beginning, but he just went too far.
My guess most of Gaza feels the same way. If this ends badly for them, Hamas just went a little too far.
That book was, of course, biased, I‘d wager. But are propaganda writings not supposed to be? Propaganda has to be simple and full of half-truths. Facts are not important. Unlike other wars, it continued unabated after the cessation of hostilities.
Imagine if „Zhang Fei“, who most probably was raised on a diet of such and similar works (hacks like Rex Stout and the other blood- guzzlers of the so called Writers‘ war board come to mind) - not to mention the hellfire on nitrocellulose which was churned out by Hollywood, so dreadful they make even Nazi and Soviet propaganda film look relatively harmless by comparison - had a say in America‘s foreign policy…