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Really makes you think about why Hamas is so radicalized, doesn’t it? It’s not like you can pull a Muslim out of a hat and radicalize them. People in a stable, healthy, and fair socioeconomic position do not see violence as an answer. People who live under constant oppression, inequality, and fear do.
And the irony is that Israel allowed Hamas to be funded by Arabic countries 25 years ago when it was a way to weaken Arafat and the PLO. Everything in this area is fucked beyond parody. No authority on either side has any idea about morality.
Netanyahu actually said something very similar, that the best way to destabilise the Palestinian Authority was to finance Hamas.
People who live under constant oppression, inequality, and fear do.
Having a religion that claims that you’re the greatest people on this planet helps.
edit You guys think that it doesn’t help, or that Abrahamic religions aren’t saying that? Help me understand.
You’re describing roughly half the planet
A remarkably small amount of people on this planet think they should be, no, make that deserve to be living in the area where biblical / quranic time people lived. But yeah, the amount of people who think they’re the greatest people is probably much more than just half.
Even I may have been known to make that mistake every now and other second.
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They arent justifying hamas, they are highlighting how israel actively created the environment that gave hamas the capability to do this.
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More like 100 years. The british began mass immigrating Jews to Israel back in 1923.
Are you talking about Israel or Hamas? Because they’ve both killed a lot of civilians. Israel has actually killed more.
Source BBC News on the hostage situation “The focus appears to be on a swap involving women and children - including Israelis and other nationals - in an exchange for Palestinian women and children in Israeli jails.”
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Thank you for stating the obvious.
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This is the second thread I’ve seen today with your awful takes. Probably worth a block, but I don’t believe in it. Just know that you’re super fucking wrong.
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Because one side uses civilians as meat shields like cowards and the other side doesn’t.
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You can’t understand not wanting to leave but instead voting via democratic process only to be dissatisfied/alarmed that more authoritarian, right wing demagogues are pushing the Overton Window right and eroding democracy?
Do you live on Mars? This is happening everywhere.
I’m sorry if this is a stupid question, but if half of them want peace and are secular, why don’t they just leave and go live somewhere else?
To quote some “very fine people” from a major western nation. “Jews will not replace us”.
Lots of places aren’t exactly welcoming to them.
Jews living in other communities has been tried and generally found not to work; it might be OK for a while but eventually they get scapegoated, persecuted, and in one extreme case sent to not exactly a holiday camp in Auschwitz. So they need a land of their own. Where though is the question, because there isn’t much usable land on this planet that hasn’t been claimed by someone, so those people are going to be displaced, some more willingly than others. Personally I think since the USA are their biggest fans they should get one of those 50 states to themselves, and it’d be a lot cheaper to just buy out everyone in the state than to keep trying to keep Israel safe from all the enemies that currently surround them, but what do I know.
Why should the Palestinians pay for German crimes with their blood?
I think this comment is pretty unfair. You’re right that there’s a historical demonization of Jews that continues to this day, but i don’t think it makes sense to suggest that the only solution is for all the Jews to hide out in Israel (or some other Jewish nation/state).
That said i don’t think it makes sense to say they have to leave for that reason either, or that it’s the smart thing to do or whatever. Why not stay? If only there were more secular Jews in Israel who opposed apartheid.
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Plus Israel’s dickery gets blind support from America. I’d guess if the Americans demanded actual concessions from Israel this would no longer be a problem, they’d have two states already. As it is, they have every economic and political incentive to just squeeze the Palestinians harder.
You mean the American government surely. Americans can’t even get our government to do shit for Americans lmao
Have Americans often tried the path to a communist revolution against the state, like how they tell every “bad” country on earth to do it? No? Americans are supportive of every genocide, war crime and terrorist attack ever committed by their government.
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This part always makes me feel ambivalent about the Israelites in the conflict. Israeli citizens are complicit victims, and that’s a contradiction but it’s also true. Civilians are getting hurt and dying and that’s not okay. However those same Israeli citizens are also supporting a basically genocidal government. Thousands of guidanceless rockets were fired at Isreal, are they expected not to respond? Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been victimized for their entire lives, are they expected not to respond?
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One of the downsides of having mandatory military service is that civilians aren’t exactly regular civilians. Even if they’re not serving now, most of the adult population in Israel has served in the army.
I don’t think that excuses sexual violence and executing children, but it definitely makes the context of civilians a lot murkier.
Fortunately, no child executions or rapes have been confirmed.
Thousands of guidanceless rockets were fired at Isreal, are they expected not to respond?
This kind of thinking is what got the troubles as bad as it was
Yeah it did. Unfortunately though once the genie is out of the bottle it’s really hard to put it back in. War has it’s own momentum and it’s that momentum that needs to be resisted or expended before a war will stop. Perhaps I was unclear, I do not support any active combatants to the war and like every other war it’s the non-combatants who will suffer the most. As much as I would like to resist the momentum of war, I’m just a dude on the other side of the planet talking about something he barely knows.
Looks like some self proclaimed centrists felt triggered by this lmao
I have decided to use this against every centrist fascist sympathiser from now on. Clowns should be clowned upon.
It’s been 17 years since the last election. Assuming only 18 and up could vote, that means only people current around 34 and up could vote. So the bulk of Palestinians didn’t even have a chance to vote in that election. Not to mention that they were given the choice between a corrupt faction (Fatah) and a possible less corrupt faction (Hamas).
I am so afraid this message is getting lost. There has been a deliberate push to paint this latest incident to be the reason that neighborhoods had to be flattened and civilians slaughtered.
why can’t they hold elections?
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They can. They won’t.
Either they’re just undemocratic, or they know that the results of elections wouldn’t be what they want them to be.
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Hamas sucks, I wish they were never allowed to assume any power. But if Hamas doesn’t control the water, electricity, food, currency, internet, or borders in Gaza; who should the Palestinians revolt against?
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So you believe Hamas is the only problem here and once they are killed off the violence will stop and relations can be normalized?
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By not actively revolting all of America was responsible for Abu Ghraib?
You do know what a false dichotomy is, right?
Here here. At least somebody has some fucking balls. Perhaps because it’s not a mess they created.
Hear, hear, not here, here.
Quite write, my mistake.
…my mistake.
I think you meant “missed steak.”
Go Spain.
Hamas have done more for Palestine than anything the EU has ever done
Hamas has supporters because they are the only one who fight. If tomorrow, Hamas disappears, there will be another group that Palestinians would support and another and another until there are no reasons for the Palestinians to resist
you don’t need to like them or anything (this is not liberalism and freedom of association is not real), our morals or opinions can’t stop the mechanism that is taking place in the place
Palestinian politics is also very heavily influenced by which group is getting external support and aid
“Hamas” has done more for Palestinians than all the “aid” ever given by the EU.
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He does actually specify the EU tbh. Is he wrong?
extremely rare Spain W
Death to America
The mass downvoting on comments on this thread shows that the Islamophobes are brigading.
There is literally nothing to disagree with, other than if you object to Muslim/Palestinian people existing.
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They did.
Some of them were wearing IDF uniforms :|
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Hamas came in power in 2006(17 years ago).
Good point. And it was founded in 1985. So perhaps last 30 years.
It was funded by Netanyahu and the Mossad against left secular PLO on purpose - this is indeed like a 911 situation as he says; it’s literally blowback and furthermore likely intentionally allowed to happen given what we’ve heard from the Egyptians about prior warning to Israel which they ignored (Israel confirmed that they received this intelligence).
We must demise EU. Go back to our sovereignty. This institution is not serving us. UA war has exacerbated racism, now this wildcard given to the zionist entity is even more disgusting.
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religion is the root problem
Actually the big forces carving out lands for them completely irresponsibly like they’re all the same has doomed them to be in a state of war for as long as they exist.
Religion exacarbates the problem and creates extremism but violence would very well exist without it.
Spoken like someone who has never faced a day of adversity in their entire life.
spoken like someone who has never had religious nutjobs take over their government.
Oh but we can. Oh but we will.
The last bit of sympathy the west had for Muslims vanished after 9/11. The US helped them out as much as it benefited them in Afghanistan against the Russians, and we had a last hurrah for Kosovo when they were being massacred by the Serbs.
But that’s gone now. You’ve gone from slightly insular neighbours, to terrifying beardy men with hooks for hands who hate our way of life. That’s Bin Laden’s legacy.
Western support for Israel is far from unanimous, but our indifference to Palestine is. Israel could bomb Gaza to dust and bulldoze it into the sea, and at this point the most you’ll hear from us is a stern “steady on lads”.
I don’t know who exactly the “we” and “you” are referring to in your comment. But the Irish have been long been supporters of the Palestinian people no doubt due to their experience during the Troubles. I’d say the British people (not necessarily the government) support Palestine too. My brother has been to a number of pro-Palestine marches in the UK before this latest escalation of violence.
Speak for yourself.
