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[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 82 points 10 months ago

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

[-] SlowNoPoPo@lemm.ee 33 points 10 months ago

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

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 28 points 10 months ago

The tankies are all over it, actually.

[-] astral_avocado@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago

Fucking deranged tankies man, their Lord and Savior Hasan Abi has been going off about how "baby settlers" are valid military targets. These people yearn to live under a propaganda-military dictatorship.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

It’s crazy because I’m pretty sure a lot of them would be considered “undesirables” in the societies they claim to want to live in.

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago

That’s it. I’m never voting for a tankie again.

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

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

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Weird that as a Jew who is pretty damn sensitive to antisemitism since I faced a lot of it growing up in religious Indiana, I haven't noticed this support for antisemitic terrorists on Lemmy. I've seen a lot of support for innocent people being slaughtered because of Israel's response to antisemitic terrorists, but that's a separate issue.

People in the U.S. protested the war in Afghanistan. Does that mean they supported Al Qaeda? Because this is some real "you're either with us or you're with the terrorists" thinking from my perspective.

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 10 points 10 months ago

Tankies? The same people supporting Russia, China, and other brutalist regimes...

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

You’d be surprised, they’re out there

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 25 points 10 months ago

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

[-] SlowNoPoPo@lemm.ee 24 points 10 months ago
[-] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 4 points 10 months ago

Under any solution (one or two state), Hamas will be the ones in power and representing the Palestinian block. Doesn't matter if they do a good job of it or not.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 7 points 10 months ago
[-] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 7 points 10 months ago

They are the de facto (and kind of de jure...) government of Gaza. Hell, they run the Health Ministry that provides a lot of the updates.

If this somehow ends with anything short of further subjugation and/or eradication, they will be "heroes". And they aren't going to lessen their hold on the Palestinian people.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago

They were also very unpopular before Oct 7 and I doubt they've gotten any more popular since then.

[-] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago

Popularity doesn't really matter when they were, and are, the power in charge in Gaza.

And "popularity" will go through the roof if, somehow, they are the ones that get the Israeli Government to stop being genocidal dicks and actually make concessions... by raping and murdering Israeli, German, and UK citizens?

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 18 points 10 months ago

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

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Didn't the Palestinian people vote them in?

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Almost 20 years ago, when the majority of Palestinians alive today were either too young to vote or hadn't even been born. How long after an election do you assume elected leaders have any real mandate?

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world -3 points 10 months ago

My point was that regardless of their ability to do it, they were at one time the elected officials of the geographic location known as Gaza. They're obviously not a real government in policy and action, but they're the only thing that exists to even bear the term or concept of governance in the area.

There is no other group to be considered as the government, no matter how awful Hamas is at being a government of any variety.

[-] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

At one time, yes, but I don't think we should be holding the Palestinians today to that. That would be like the Dubya era. If he had kept office until now, he would certainly not represent the opinion of Americans.

Hamas is embedded like a parasite, but there's better ways to point this out.

[-] astral_avocado@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

Like over a decade ago but they havent held elections since. I've seen countering articles saying Hamas has overwhelming support by the people, vs actually Hamas murders anyone who goes against them. So who knows. Fog of war and all that.

[-] Tavarin@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

actually Hamas murders anyone who goes against them

Well that would result in them having overwhelming support, among the survivors that is.

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 12 points 10 months ago

There is also the West Bank, however.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago

The West Bank has now been all but annexed by Israel.

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 10 months ago
[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee -1 points 10 months ago

Yes, though most of the stuff is about Gaza

[-] guacupado@lemmy.world -4 points 10 months ago

They're the same picture.

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