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[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 166 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Really makes you think about why Hamas is so radicalized, doesn't it? It's not like you can pull a Muslim out of a hat and radicalize them. People in a stable, healthy, and fair socioeconomic position do not see violence as an answer. People who live under constant oppression, inequality, and fear do.

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 94 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And the irony is that Israel allowed Hamas to be funded by Arabic countries 25 years ago when it was a way to weaken Arafat and the PLO. Everything in this area is fucked beyond parody. No authority on either side has any idea about morality.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 39 points 1 year ago

Netanyahu actually said something very similar, that the best way to destabilise the Palestinian Authority was to finance Hamas.

[–] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 39 points 1 year ago

The same parallels with how the US funded what would later become Al Qaeda to fuck with the Soviets. Then they did 9/11.

[–] fosforus@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

People who live under constant oppression, inequality, and fear do.

Having a religion that claims that you're the greatest people on this planet helps.

edit You guys think that it doesn't help, or that Abrahamic religions aren't saying that? Help me understand.

[–] archomrade@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're describing roughly half the planet

[–] fosforus@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A remarkably small amount of people on this planet think they should be, no, make that deserve to be living in the area where biblical / quranic time people lived. But yeah, the amount of people who think they're the greatest people is probably much more than just half.

Even I may have been known to make that mistake every now and other second.