• TheBananaKing@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    This never was about Hamas, and never was about the hostages.

    It’s about exterminating Palestinians and destroying their infrastructure, while ensuring that enough of the survivors are radicalised enough to keep the military funding going.

    • Twink Freud ✊🏰🕰️@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      while ensuring that enough of the survivors are radicalised enough to keep the military funding going.

      this is the part everyone misses. it’s a batman/joker thing. as long as bibi can make the case that there’s at least one living member of Hamas, he’s free to send the IDF to loot, pillage, burn, rape and murder in Palestine. This is why Israel funded Hamas for years. There’s nothing an asshole likes more than another asshole, so that while he’s being an asshole he can point to the other asshole and say “Look what an asshole that guy is! I’m protecting you from him.” The fact is the Israeli and Palestinian civilians have both been victimized by Hamas, the Israeli government, and Europe. This conflict is full of powerful people trying to convince regular powerless people that other regular powerless people are the enemy, but the fact is an Israeli civilian has more in common with a Palestinian civilian than they do with Hamas or IDF.

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      11 months ago

      I wouldn’t go that far to say hamas/iran want to exterminate palestinians, but rather to keep israel busy and create a negative world opinion on them for reasons to come in the next years.

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        11 months ago

        Even if this was the case, when someone holds a gun to your head and says do something before i count to three, most wait till the last possible second. Isreal pulled out a resume and dumped two clips before anyone said One.

        The only real fuckin ugly truth to any of this right now is that blame seems to be the only thing that matters to anyone. Innocent people are being slaughtered and instead of just shutting this shit down ASAP and hashing it out when the dust settles we’ll just sit back and debate while war crimes happen.

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          11 months ago

          The innocent people getting killed in attacks on churches (even Catholic ones) and refugee camps and whole suburban areas are awful.

          Even if 10% actively supports Hamas (which is not the case) it does not warrant the genocidal reaction of Israel. Hamas has just given them the excuse to clear out their “problem areas” of every living spul who happens to be there.

          An award winning journalist who compared this to the pogroms of ww2 is maybe not that far off.

          Even ventilating an opinion about the actions of the IDF is branded as “antisemitism”.

          I am not pro Hamas, but what happens over there has nothing to do with self defense.

        • VentraSqwal@links.dartboard.social
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          11 months ago

          People are losing their jobs just for asking for a ceasefire, not even for saying anything antisemitic. It’s insane. I still feel sorry for that Scream 7 actress.