I have a whole thread defending the slaughter of Palestinians because of an election 17 years ago, which isn’t nothing.

It is a literal terrorist government though. It just terrorizes overseas instead of at home.

And how has our involvement in Afghanistan worked out for the people there? You can’t fight terrorism with terrorism. Personally, if I had a rocket blow up my house and half my family, I’m signing up for Hamas or make Hamas 2 the next day to fight the people that did that to me. It’s not a Hamas missile that did that to me.

If you can’t empathize with that position, the humiliation and slow suffering of the Palestinians, I don’t know what to tell you. I suspect it’s a deep seated racism but I’ll never know.

Now where did I do that? Where did I call Palestinians subhuman?

Oh not you, plenty of Israeli officials, but this one is what I’m specifically referring to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbPdR3E4hCk

Yes. I’d be okay with Canada defending itself via violence. Quite literally would hope that Canada would do that… Especially

Even bombing your house and killing half your family, and cutting off all your food and water? Are you sure?

They funnel funds to Hamas through Qatar, and that’s exactly the point. Because Israel doesn’t want peace, they want land. How is this not blatantly obvious?

Also, thought experiment

• The United States elects Hamas. Literal Hamas.
• Some United States militants kill 5000 Canadians.

Is it OK for Canada to destroy more than half of your civilian infrastructure, displace half the population, and keep new england for itself while calling Americans subhuman beasts? Why or why not?

Explicitly legitimized by the Israeli state as well. It’s policy to only recognize Hamas as the legitimate governing body.

Most of the time, Israeli policy was to treat the Palestinian Authority as a burden and Hamas as an asset. Far-right MK Bezalel Smotrich, now the finance minister in the hardline government and leader of the Religious Zionism party, said so himself in 2015. According to various reports, Netanyahu made a similar point at a Likud faction meeting in early 2019, when he was quoted as saying that those who oppose a Palestinian state should support the transfer of funds to Gaza, because maintaining the separation between the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza would prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state.

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You’re also assuming I said they are popular when I’m explaining why they haven’t been kicked out

You have to be pretty far right to hold water for a fascist ethnostate, so that assumption would be fair.

A: time exists. As the occupation as become more brutal and unjust, the more a reactionary militant force is going to gain popularity. I fucking hate the cops, but I’m going to call them in extreme distress for example.

B: even if they were unpopular, you have to be a special level of hated before you’re expelled and ‘civil warred’

Stop having a binary child brain please.

They recognize their actual enemy. Why would they kick out the people attempting to stick up for them?

Also, if you’re American, you should understand how deeply unpopular candidates can win elections. Hell, plenty don’t even need a popular vote!

~50% of Gaza is under 18.

Think it through bud, you can do it.

(also I love how if I don’t cite sources on everything I’m automatically wrong because it doesn’t confirm to the propoganda you’ve been fed lmao)

Yes.

Moderate candidates split the vote, and exit polls at the time showed like 80% of people wanted to work toward peace.

They also ran on being anti corruption and pious, and the other candidates absolutely had corruption issues.

You understand a large portion of the population wasn’t born at the time of that election, right?

You understand that election was forced by the US, right?

You understand the US failed to coup Hamas and solidified their power, right?

You think little babies should be blown to bits over an election 17 years ago right?

Yeah, they’re the only militant force with any level of power seen as potential liberators from a violent oppressive force that has only served to fuck them over.

Hamas exists because of Israel and Israel’s actions, not because Palestinians are some barbaric angry subhumans. They have never even been that popular.

If the civilian population was responsible for government actions, the United States should have been nuked decades ago.

You mean the people that complain about minor details like, I don’t know… ethnic cleansing, genocide, tens of thousands of civilian deaths, settler terrorism, white phosphorus, civilian infrastructure being leveled, journalists murdered.

Just little things that get us all riled up.

Ah, I figured it out.

Malicious, stupid, and zero empathy reserved exclusively for Israelis. Keep Yourself Safe.

• Those numbers are what has been used by most countries before this genocide started, including Israel and the US (and still do)
• Something like 40% of buildings have been destroyed in Gaza since last week (it’s certainly more now)
• Hamas is the governing body, everything is technically under Hamas. That’s like me saying “I don’t trust the CDC or HHS because I don’t trust an imperialist terrorist United States”.
• It’s not hard to find all kinds of footage of blown up children and buildings, use your fucking eyes if the other bits of logic are too difficult for you.