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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (40 children)

If you ever start thinking your life is miserable, think about people living in Gaza. It’s truly unfair that they have to live these lives...

On one hand, they have to deal with Hamas - atrocious terrorists who turned Gaza into the one of the most impoverished regions in the world. They stole everything they could and even behave terribly towards the citizens.

And on the other hand, they have IDF here which don't care very much about their lives and caused quite a lot of damage, as well. Add to that Israel's current right wing government and situation cannot be worse.

Oh surely you think it cannot be worse? It still can. Pretty much no one from Gaza can leave to another country because no other country will accept Gazans. Maybe because for the last 18 years they have been indoctrinated into thinking that killing a Jewish is the most saint action you can do.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (22 children)

Why are Hamas “atrocious terrorists” but Israel “don’t care very much”?

Pretty sure they’re both terrorists, and add committing genocide onto the Israeli side.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (20 children)

Hamas has genocide as its openly, publicly stated goal.

[–] timidgoat 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I dare you to go read their current charter. Not the one from the 80s.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you want the section where they declare their dedication to violence? Or perhaps the section where they use "from the river to the sea" as an explicit call for genocide?

The charter was toned down. Instead of saying they want to kill all Jews, now they only want to kill all the Jews living in Israel.

But their leaders say it best: we will repeat October 7th until Israel is destroyed.

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

Calling for Israel to be destroyed is not antisemititic, it’s antizionist.

[–] timidgoat -2 points 1 year ago

How about this section?

  1. Hamas affirms that its conflict is with the Zionist project not with the Jews because of their religion. Hamas does not wage a struggle against the Jews because they are Jewish but wages a struggle against the Zionists who occupy Palestine. Yet, it is the Zionists who constantly identify Judaism and the Jews with their own colonial project and illegal entity.

I'm sorry that you're so down with colonialism that resistance groups fighting against oppression make you so uncomfortable. You're whining about "Hamas calling for the genocide of Jews" yet you're watching the supposed "Jewish homeland" (read: Jewish ethnostate) commit genocide on the people of Gaza. This to me says that you care only about Jewish life and very little or not at all about Palestinian life. You're a racist, as all true Zionists are.

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