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[–] [email protected] 81 points 10 months ago (4 children)

They're not doing their supporters any favours with these sort of comments lol

[–] [email protected] 82 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It’s easy to support Palestinian statehood. Anyone that supports Hamas is a moron.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I was about to say, who's out there supporting hamas

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The tankies are all over it, actually.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fucking deranged tankies man, their Lord and Savior Hasan Abi has been going off about how "baby settlers" are valid military targets. These people yearn to live under a propaganda-military dictatorship.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

It’s crazy because I’m pretty sure a lot of them would be considered “undesirables” in the societies they claim to want to live in.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Bro like literally 90% of Lemmy has a throbbing boner for Hamas and his stated antisemitic terrorists, even in this thread, terrorists apologizers abound

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

You've not been in these threads for very long, have you?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Tankies? The same people supporting Russia, China, and other brutalist regimes...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

You’d be surprised, they’re out there

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Considering Hamas is the organization governing Gaza right now, the two are often intertwined in these discussions

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Under any solution (one or two state), Hamas will be the ones in power and representing the Palestinian block. Doesn't matter if they do a good job of it or not.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They are the de facto (and kind of de jure...) government of Gaza. Hell, they run the Health Ministry that provides a lot of the updates.

If this somehow ends with anything short of further subjugation and/or eradication, they will be "heroes". And they aren't going to lessen their hold on the Palestinian people.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It seems to me that Hamas "governs" Palestine the same way groups like the Mafia or Yakuza "govern" the people they extort.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Didn't the Palestinian people vote them in?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

Almost 20 years ago, when the majority of Palestinians alive today were either too young to vote or hadn't even been born. How long after an election do you assume elected leaders have any real mandate?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Like over a decade ago but they havent held elections since. I've seen countering articles saying Hamas has overwhelming support by the people, vs actually Hamas murders anyone who goes against them. So who knows. Fog of war and all that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

actually Hamas murders anyone who goes against them

Well that would result in them having overwhelming support, among the survivors that is.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

There is also the West Bank, however.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The West Bank has now been all but annexed by Israel.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago (8 children)

They shouldn't have any fucking supporters. This is the shit all the anti-Israel people are supporting. I'm no fan of Netanyahu but wtf do they expect Israel to do? It's like everyone forgot what prompted this and thinks Israel just woke up one morning and decided to raze everything because they were bored.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm no fan of Netanyahu but wtf do they expect Israel to do?

I expect them not to commit war crimes at a bare minimum.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Yes, not indiscriminately murdering civilians would be nice.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (11 children)

Are you suggesting that when Israel bombs a refugee camp and kills all those innocent people that somehow that is a reasonable response?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (5 children)

It's a disproportionate response, and misdirected. But it is definitely a response to something real, which the more rabid anti-Israel types seem to gloss over.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (4 children)

being both anti-israel and anti-hamas at the same time is the only correct position i don't understand why this isn't obvious

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (11 children)

Which supporters? This is a boon to Vladimir Putin, as world attention and aid to Israel comes at a cost to support for Ukraine.

By escalating the conflict to a genocidal ground war, Israel's criminal leaders may have doomed not only Israelis, but the people of Ukraine as well.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Not to condone their actions, but what would Hamas care about getting supporters? Palestine situation hasn't been helped much at all by international supporters, so it's not like they care about that.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago

The two are linked together. When aid has been sent to Palestine, to help Palestinians, Hamas has taken it for themselves. There was an EU project I believe to build water infrastructure, and Hamas took it apart to make into rockets.

I don't think it's possible to provide material support to the Palestinians. Hamas just takes it all. It's so fucked.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Palestine is dependent on foreign aid to continue its war fighting. Specifically aid from western nations. They need supporters to feed, fuel and supply it's military and populace.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Might make people less happy to support pummeling them if they weren't acting like such villains

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