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[–] [email protected] 133 points 1 year ago (40 children)

Hamas and Netanyahus rhetoric; name a more iconic due.

These fuckers fit hand and fucking glove.

[–] [email protected] 104 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Netanyahu: Hamas is a terrorist organization that wants to eliminate the Jewish nation

Hamas: yeah he’s right

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (5 children)

That's why Nethanyahu funded them.

All his investments paid off in this neat little casus belli.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

He allowed Hamas to be funded but it's still horrific the hand he had in making this monster. He allowed Hamas to grow so it would fight those looking to negotiate toward a two-state solution.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Both of them have caused so much harm.

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago (4 children)

They're not doing their supporters any favours with these sort of comments lol

[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It’s easy to support Palestinian statehood. Anyone that supports Hamas is a moron.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I was about to say, who's out there supporting hamas

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The tankies are all over it, actually.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bro like literally 90% of Lemmy has a throbbing boner for Hamas and his stated antisemitic terrorists, even in this thread, terrorists apologizers abound

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

You've not been in these threads for very long, have you?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Considering Hamas is the organization governing Gaza right now, the two are often intertwined in these discussions

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Governing is a generous term

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

It seems to me that Hamas "governs" Palestine the same way groups like the Mafia or Yakuza "govern" the people they extort.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (29 children)

They shouldn't have any fucking supporters. This is the shit all the anti-Israel people are supporting. I'm no fan of Netanyahu but wtf do they expect Israel to do? It's like everyone forgot what prompted this and thinks Israel just woke up one morning and decided to raze everything because they were bored.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm no fan of Netanyahu but wtf do they expect Israel to do?

I expect them not to commit war crimes at a bare minimum.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Which supporters? This is a boon to Vladimir Putin, as world attention and aid to Israel comes at a cost to support for Ukraine.

By escalating the conflict to a genocidal ground war, Israel's criminal leaders may have doomed not only Israelis, but the people of Ukraine as well.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Not to condone their actions, but what would Hamas care about getting supporters? Palestine situation hasn't been helped much at all by international supporters, so it's not like they care about that.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

The two are linked together. When aid has been sent to Palestine, to help Palestinians, Hamas has taken it for themselves. There was an EU project I believe to build water infrastructure, and Hamas took it apart to make into rockets.

I don't think it's possible to provide material support to the Palestinians. Hamas just takes it all. It's so fucked.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (48 children)

A senior member of Hamas has hailed the systematic slaughter of civilians in Israel

When asked whether this meant the complete annihilation of Israel, Hamas replied: “Yes, of course.”

who still thinks hamas are the good guys?

[–] [email protected] 100 points 1 year ago

If you're coming to any international conflict, but specially to this one, from a "good guys/bad guys" framework you're absolutely not helping.

Sometimes (a lot of times, sadly) all you get in a particular issue is just assholes all the way down. Unsurprisingly, deadly military conflicts where both sides have proven at best a callous disregard for civilian casualties practically requires the asshole pile to be expansive and thorough.

The question is how you get the endless, writhing mass of assholes to stop. Which isn't looking great right now.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I made the mistake of commenting on this post where people clearly think that the Hamas are the good guys and have every right to do what they do. Apologies for linking to it.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Only tankies. Literally no one out here with a braincell is defending Hamas.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Nobody said they were.

edit: okay crazy people on a lemmygrad site said they were. But that page that guy linked looked about as nice as a 4chan site....

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Somebody told me recently on here that "Hamas is facing a genocide" apparently without any sort of irony or remorse.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like the 90% of lemmy are terrorists apologizers at this point

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is an 100 year conflict, all the good guys are dead.

Why do people feel this need to be good/bad. Everybody knows by now how complex is the middle east

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (7 children)

My impression is that at least half of fediverse.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Tactically their October 7 attack was incredibly silly, honestly what did they think would happen?

They gave Netanyahu, who was finally fumbling at the reigns after almost thirty years aan excuse to execute his wet dreams and all of Israel uniting behind him.

I see no way how they could have thought the attack would benefit their cause.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Hamas saw that Bibi is digging a giant hole for himself and said “I want in”

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