Hamas won in 2006 and there hasn’t been an election since then. And half of the people are kids who never voted for them.
Israeli has been restricting what goes into Gaza for decades. But an occupied state has every right to fight the occupiers. How do people not get what Israel has been doing for 75 years? Israel wants every bit of Palestine. What would you do if that happened to your state?
It's worth remembering that even if Israel wants every bit of Palestine, it's also true that Palestine wants every bit of Israel. That's literally what "from the river to the sea" means - their goal is to conquer the whole land and kick out or kill all Jews living there. As Scott said, neither side are pure virtuous "good guys", but at least Israel's rationale is "we are going to conquer you because you won't stop committing terrorism", whereas Hamas' rationale is "we are going to murder you because you are Jewish".
All polls show overwhelming public support for Hamas. So it appears the people support the theocratic dictatorship. Which means whole the people are allegedly civilians, they aren’t the saintly victims many try to claim. They overwhelmingly supported mass murder on 10/7. Now they are finding out.
Sounds callous and cold, but it’s pretty easy to see how a rational person would agree with that when coupled with Hamas’ destruction of Israel goals.
Hamas won in 2006 and there hasn’t been an election since then. And half of the people are kids who never voted for them.
Israeli has been restricting what goes into Gaza for decades. But an occupied state has every right to fight the occupiers. How do people not get what Israel has been doing for 75 years? Israel wants every bit of Palestine. What would you do if that happened to your state?
It's worth remembering that even if Israel wants every bit of Palestine, it's also true that Palestine wants every bit of Israel. That's literally what "from the river to the sea" means - their goal is to conquer the whole land and kick out or kill all Jews living there. As Scott said, neither side are pure virtuous "good guys", but at least Israel's rationale is "we are going to conquer you because you won't stop committing terrorism", whereas Hamas' rationale is "we are going to murder you because you are Jewish".
Which is why I said neither side is good above. We shouldn’t support either side (or both) in a mud fight.
All polls show overwhelming public support for Hamas. So it appears the people support the theocratic dictatorship. Which means whole the people are allegedly civilians, they aren’t the saintly victims many try to claim. They overwhelmingly supported mass murder on 10/7. Now they are finding out.
Sounds callous and cold, but it’s pretty easy to see how a rational person would agree with that when coupled with Hamas’ destruction of Israel goals.