"Instead, it roused the State to undertake one of the most draconian and cruel campaigns of torture and lynching in revenge ever seen in the American South up to that time."

This sounds exactly what I expect to see in Gaza and the West Bank. I have no kind words for Hamas and their actions. I don't know that you could consider them a state when the PA is for all practical purposes an arm of the Israeli government and dare not ever confront Israeli soldiers.