After watching justification of the choice not to provide an opportunity for international agencies to deliver aid to Gaza:

To insist that one should be held to the same standards of conduct as an internationally condemned terrorist organization is to aspire to the same condemnation.

The alternative path, of course, is for a people that dwells on a history of oppression to demonstrate sensitivity to the consequences of their own search for security – and take the higher ground in limiting the side-effects of their aggression.