• unfreeradical@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Hamas exists as a power within Gaza because of Israeli policies intended to make the Palestinian population appear to the world as extremist. Military operations of Hamas have entirely targeted its oppressor nation, and such activity could end as soon as such oppression also would end. Hamas has no particular presence in the West Bank, which is more populous than Gaza.

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      11 months ago

      No, Hamas hostility towards Israel will end only when Israel ceases to exist. It’s written in their charter, it’s obvious from their actions, their spokesman says it loud and clear. All this while the liberal westerners nod and mutter “you poor oppressed thing, of course you are”…

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        You’re treading very close to genocide denial. Be very careful in how you respond, if you even respond.

        7000 civilians have been killed in less than 3 weeks. Netanyahu has given the IDF clearance to kill anyone they see on sight. They’re bombing the designated refugee camp. They’re bombing hospitals and ambulance convoys. They shut off the food, water, and electricity to Gaza. They have the full might of the US just off shore. But sure, Hamas is the evil threat.

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            11 months ago

            You deeply ignorant about ongoing events.

            Israel has denied electricity to all of Gaza, despite humanitarian pleas over patients dying in hospitals.

            The earlier comment mocks condemnation against the oppression of Palestine. Especially under current circumstance, it certainly smacks extremely close to denial of genocide.

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                11 months ago

                Listen.

                Genocide is occurring.

                Israel occupies Gaza. Israel blockades Gaza by land, sea, and air. Israel entirely controls access to Gaza. No one and nothing enters or leaves Gaza without permission by the occupation by Israel.

                The closure and control of Gaza includes clean water and electricity.

                Israel has denied water and electricity to all of Gaza, despite humanitarian pleas over patients dying in hospitals.

                Israel has occupied the Palestinian people for three generations. Israel is an occupying power actively perpetrating genocide in Gaza.

                There is no equivalence. Israel is occupier and Israel is oppressor.

                Condemnation of Israel is not antisemitism, obviously.

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        11 months ago

        You are quite confused.

        Liberals have tended to deny, often bolstered by outright lies, the oppression of the Palestinian people.

        I care very little about the Hamas charter. As stated, the rise to power of Hamas has been a deliberate policy choice by Israel, and freedom for Palestine is essential regardless of Hamas or what it has claimed. Indeed, before the occupation, there was no Hamas.

        As such, your fixation on Hamas, and your impulse to invoke it as an excuse against the liberation of Palestine, is quite distorted.