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For Hezbollah and Hamas, US Democrats and Republicans are two sides of the same coin as they have both provided unlimited support to Israel, and sought to create a “New Middle East”. (peoplesdispatch.org)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Hezbollah and Hamas have a better grasp of american politics than most americans

[+] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Both Hamas and Hezbollah have popular support from their constituencies and are functionally their own governments. It doesn't matter if they're good guys or not, they're the ones who have the mandate of the people. Israel's murder spree only increases support for the Axis of Resistance.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

For what it’s worth, Hezbollah has 13 of 128 seats in Lebanon’s parliament, and the CIA World Factbook says about a third of Lebanese are Christian, so I’m going to disagree with your characterization.

Hamas hasn’t held elections in nearly 20 years, so I’m going to disagree with you again. Israel’s accelerated genocide may have galvanized support for Hamas recently, but I haven’t looked into that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Hezbollah has political allies (including christians) which together amount(ed) to a majority.

See: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hezbollah-allies-win-62-seats-lebanon-parliament-losing-2018-majority-reuters-2022-05-17/

And it's not Hamas which holds elections, but rather the Palestinian authority, presided by the leader of Fatah (opponent of Hamas) who has been impeding elections since 2006 because his party is losing popularity.

See: https://archive.ph/Jn4KJ

Edit: I do not mean to offend anyone but I beg you (anyone reading this) please be more aware about what you write and say, especially if you haven't looked into the issue in depth.

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

I beg you (anyone reading this) please be more aware about what you write and say, especially if you haven’t looked into the issue in depth.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

It is important not to estrange the people, no matter how deluded they are. This is a product of the hegemonic order.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

People resisting a genocide are in fact the good guys.