Indeed so: for the Hamas leadership, it is perfectly clear that their people are expendable pawns, to be starved or killed at will as long as it helps them with their goal of killing the Jews.
Considering Hamas' ideology, it will matter not one bit to them whether the Palestinians live in extreme poverty or if each one has a palatial mansion. The goal of destroying Israel will remain. Indeed, every time Israel relaxes the blockade, the sole result is Hamas declaring it proves Israel's weakness, how they defeated the Zionist enemy, etc. Giving Hamas more money will make them more, not less, terroristic.
Besides, again, it is in Hamas' interest to keep the Palestinians in extreme poverty, so that the useful idiots will like them. Any money given to them will merely be taken to buy weapons, and the Palestinians will be just as poor as before.
Finally, the "poverty causes terrorism" or "desperate people do desperate things" claim is simply false. If anything, the opposite is true: terrorists are usually not poor and desperate, but rich and confident -- in particular, confident of their coming victory. Bin Laden isn't poor. Hamas' leadership isn't poor. The 9/11 hijackers weren't poor. Iran isn't poor. And none are desperate - they're all terribly confident of coming victory. (On the other hand, many dirt-poor nations in desperate straits have virtually no terrorism.)
In reality, the "poverty and desperation cause terrorism", like most "root cause" thinking, is merely a rhetorical device to blame the victims of terrorism for being killed by the terrorists (they kept the terrorists "poor and desperate", you see.) The "root causers" blame the victims, the economy, "imperialism", the weather, the forces of history, the latest election results -- anybody and anything except, of course, the terrorists themselves. THEY are as pure as snow, as innocent as lambs.
The "root cause" of terrorism is terrorists, with their genocidal Islamist ideology, not poverty and desperation.
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