I’m gonna ignore the Bush bit here, but I’m not trying to prove Hamas right, I’m explaining why it happened, why Hamas did that, and what made them mad enough to do that. Short answer: colonization, decades of it. The soldiers of Hamas are the kids and relatives of those who’d previously lived in the land the Israelis took during the war. They were breaking into places they had memories of, places they’d lived in and remembered the loss of for generations. When someone has to know that the homes they lived in are being inhabited by the people who forced them out, while they are in the concentration camp that is modern-day Gaza. When their access to food, water, electricity, basic healthcare, and shelter is threatened and controlled by those very same people, of COURSE they will rebel.
Hamas resists, the Israelis crush resistance, that’s been the consistent formula for nearly a century. As of yesterday, it’s the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, the event that forced over 75,000 Palestinians out of their homes. Even Arab Jews were displaced or killed during then. You don’t even try to defend the colonization, the literal core of israel’s validity.
Israel is an apartheid-based colonial entity, and when it shoves the Gazans into a corner with no access to food or water, it better dam well know it’ll get pushback from resistance groups. Israel has killed over 5,000 Palestinians from 2008-2020, and recently, that’s skyrocketed to a higher rate than the Nakba with a ratio of death starting at LEAST at 30:1. There is no “self defense” Israel could ever claim here, their enemy managed to break through one time when they were stupid enough to expect them to just sit there and die. Israel isn’t any “haven” of Western civilization, they’ve been handing out rights based upon ethnicity and still seriously debate allowance of inter-religious and inter-racial marriage. They’re not anything like the West in most terms, and… Read more
I’m not trying to prove Hamas right, I’m explaining why it happened, why Hamas did that, and what made them mad enough to do that.
And to hell, I say, with their motivations. Their terrorist attack is totally unjustified, their indiscriminate slaughter, and deliberate targeting, of women and children is unsurpassed in the grimmest catalogue of human barbarity the blood of thousands of wars has written. And in inflicting that gravest of atrocities on Israel's population, they forced the nation, which had long been seeking, but never truly finding, peace and co-existence with… Read more
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When everything is a “who started it first” situation, nothing has a justification, or everything does. This happened because the Israelis were demolishing the West Bank, the area with NO influence or ownership by Hamas. What’s their excuse there? They’ve killed thousands of children and innocent civilians in the West Bank for decades, and the only ruling authority there is the PA, which is openly and evidentially inside the pocket of the Israelis in most every respect. The Israelis already target civilians, they already kill en masse, then play the victim while shooti… Read more
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The kingdom of Judea was one of many who existed there, and if we must pull this ancient history “blood and soil” nonsense, their own scripture states they’d killed the Canaanites who lived in the region because it was their promised land. If you believe their own scriptural histories, then they are quite literally the genocidal types in the past themselves. Palestinians have a stronger connection to Canaanites overall, with far less non-Middle Eastern genetic variation than most modern-day Jews.
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God literally committed genocide several times according to religious scripture. That was the Canaanite invasion by the Hebrews, the Great Flood, and many more, and religious people are expected to not just believe it was god’s will, but also that it was a positive development. Religion itself is bathed in blood, I’m not here to defend Islam, I’m here to say others are no different. Israelis today quote their own scriptural verses when making clear genocidal statements about Palestinians, that’s utter nonsense to reject here. Philanthropy is established in Christianity… Read more
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The anti-Zionist movement is not driven just by young white leftists and Muslims, but just as often by Jews, by the spectators and viewers of these atrocities who are disgusted by the brutality of the Israeli government. They have openly stated they want to take Gaza in its entirety, the majority of the Israeli people even believe it, and they consistently state it will be no place for the Palestinians to live, so answer me this: what will happen to them once they get Gaza? What will happen to the Palestinians once the Israelis conquer the whole region? After all, their territory and their… Read more