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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

The thing is: Hamas is the only organization actually doing anything for the Palestinian cause (remember 2021). I also find the designation terrorist group pretty biased towards the US (the attack's details are still up in the air, and otherwise they're using questionable means to fight an occupier), but either way "ban Hamas" does nothing but reaffirm the status quo. Anyone designating Hamas as a terrorist group has to do the same for Israel, because they do everything Hamas is criticized for doing, only on a larger scale and with a lot more dead people.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Hamas has singlehandedly set back the prospects for a Palestinian state for years, maybe decades. It's really ironic that you believe they do anything to help Palestinians. Also they are the ones who have the biggest interest in getting as many Palestinian people killed by Israel as they possibly can. They do so by preventing them from leaving and using them as human shields for their military installations.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Hamas has singlehandedly set back the prospects for a Palestinian state for years, maybe decades.

They've been set back since Netenyahu got elected in 1996. That's the moment when peace failed; everything that came after was farces, and the result of that was Hamas winning the election in 2006.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hamas literally ran politically as MODERATES. They've gone full jihadist. Without democratic process to keep the structure honest no party can be trusted.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

What? Idk what the specifics of their platform were, but Hamas's general platform was "10 years of peace and we got nothing, 5 years of fighting and we freed Gaza".

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