Both Hamas and Fatah are corrupt. However, it is impossible to have a free and fair democratic election under an Apartheid State. The Apartheid must end first before it is possible for Palestinians to have a free and fair election.
Hamas does torture and kill political rivals, and has been exposed for corruption. Fatah is also corrupt, seen as working at the behest of Israel at the expense of Palestinians in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Both have been funded by Israel as part of a Divide and Conquer tactic. Israel also has a long history of assassinating more moderate and leftist political Palestinian rivals.
Hamas Victory Driven By Desire To End Corruption WPO
Hamas Political Violence in Gaza - HRW 2009
Gaza: Palestinians tortured, summarily killed by Hamas forces during 2014 conflict - Amnesty
Gaza: Journalist facing prison term for exposing corruption in Hamas-controlled ministry - Amnesty
Palestinians furious and fed up with corruption of Abbas’s ‘mafia’ PA - MEE
“Divide and Rule”: How Israel Helped Start Hamas to Weaken Palestinian Hopes for Statehood - DemocracyNow
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations – review - The Guardian
The fucking gall to blame Israel for Hamas torturing and murdering Palestinians.
Can we blame them for torturing Palestinians when they do it themselves?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67581915
How about all those Palestinian children they murdered?
Why the fuck is a mod so active in the comments trying to enter into arguments with people?
israel gets some of the blame for funding hamas and building them up when they needed them to take out the plo
hamas gets some of the blame for using terrorism as a weapon and attacking israeli citizens while neglecting gazans
Source on Israel funding Hamas?
My understanding is they allowed money to pass from Qatar to Hamas, but never directly funded them.
Israel commits Genocide
New York Times writes an article to blame Hamas
can we ban this propaganda outlet.
NY Times are so biased in this conflict.
I’d rather argue they are willing to do so - in the hope for permanent ceasefire and peace. Anything to stop the bombing, dying, starvation and everything else.
Israel has no intent to stop the bombing and starvation. That’s why they have rejected any permanent ceasefire in exchange for hostages and insisted on only temporary ceasefires
Let’s be honest though: if Israel stopped bombing immediately, do you think Hamas would stop randomly bombing and mortaring Israel? Sure, Israel is fucked up, but there’s a certain point where Palestine needs to realize they’ll never have peace with Hamas always looking to fight someone. It’s like complaining about the crime in your neighbor but you refuse to tell the cops where the local drug house is even with all the anonymity that technology offers.
Let’s be honest though: if Israel stopped bombing immediately, do you think Hamas would stop randomly bombing and mortaring Israel? Sure, Israel is fucked up, but there’s a certain point where Palestine needs to realize they’ll never have peace with Hamas always looking to fight someone. It’s like complaining about the crime in your neighbor but you refuse to tell the cops where the local drug house is even with all the anonymity that technology offers.
do you think Hamas would stop randomly bombing and mortaring Israel?
No, of course they would not. They’re fighting to get their land, homes and human rights back and Israel is preventing all of it.
It’s like complaining about the crime in your neighbor but you refuse to tell the cops where the local drug house is even with all the anonymity that technology offers.
This argument is absurd. Because Israel started the entire conflict in 1948 (together with Britian if I remember correctly by ‘‘giving’’ the land).
Israel became an actual state in 1948 by displacing 750 000 Palestinian people and murdering many (men, women and children). Laying sieges, bombarding villages and population centers, setting fires to homes, properties and goods. Planting mines among the rubble to prevent any of the expelled people from returning (source: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by ilan Pappé).
Hamas did not exist until 1987, they became an actual group only in 1987 because of all the horrifying things Israel had done from 1948 up until 1987. Which is approximately 40 years after what Israel had done to the Palestinian people.
If Israel never done any of this, Hamas would not even exist. They merely became an actual group to get normal human condition. Israel went hard into that and thus Hamas become more and more aggresive. Do I agree with their methods? Definitely not but it is understandable. If peaceful revolution is not possible, violence revolution is inevitable. Push a person or a group enough and this will happen.
Since almost all countries are turning a blind eye, what do you want Hamas to do (Wait, get humiliated and die)?
Also peace without Hamas? What peace are you talking about? Do you mean this kind of “peace”;
- Strapped down, blindfolded, held in diapers: Israeli whistleblowers detail abuse of Palestinians in shadowy detention center.
- Death toll in Israeli attack on displaced Palestinians in Rafah rises to 45.
- Israeli forces’ systemic denial of fair trial rights to Palestinian child prisoners amounts to arbitrary detention.
- Israel prevents hundreds of worshippers from entering Al-Aqsa on first night of Ramadan.
- Israel’s PM Netanyahu ‘proud’ of preventing establishment of a Palestinian state.
- Far-right minister says nuking Gaza an option, PM suspends him from cabinet meetings.
- Israel Defense Minister Calls Palestinians ‘Human Animals’ Amid Israeli Aggression.
- Video shows Israeli settler trying to take over Palestinian house.
Hamas even said they would lay down their weapons if an independent Palestinian state is established.
- Hamas official says group would lay down its arms if an independent Palestinian state is established
EDIT: instead of downvoting, I’d love to hear a counter argument (from people, I haven’t blocked. Saw someone commented but must’ve been someone I blocked. Because, I can’t see/ open the comment). And if you do, give reliable sources otherwise it is just an opinion.
What a nonsense conspiracy theory.
Israel has rejected Hamas’s ridiculous offerings for “peace” because there will not be peace in Gaza until Hamas surrenders or is destroyed. On what planet do you think anyone is going to give terrorists their own state?
What part of the Three-phase plan from the UN Resolution do you find ridiculous? Apartheid is maintained by terrorizing civilians
Phase one includes an “immediate, full, and complete ceasefire with the release of hostages including women, the elderly and the wounded, the return of the remains of some hostages who have been killed, and the exchange of Palestinian prisoners”.
It calls for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from “populated areas” of Gaza, the return of Palestinians to their homes and neighbourhoods throughout the enclave, including in the north, as well as the safe and effective distribution of humanitarian assistance at scale.
Phase two would see a permanent end to hostilities “in exchange for the release of all other hostages still in Gaza, and a full withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza”.
In phase three, “a major multi-year reconstruction plan for Gaza” would begin and the remains of any deceased hostages still in the Strip would be returned to Israel.
The Council also underlined the proposal’s provision that if negotiations take longer than six weeks for phase one, the ceasefire will continue as long as negotiations continue. No territorial change
In the resolution, the Security Council rejects any attempt at demographic or territorial change in the Gaza Strip, including any actions that reduce the territory of the enclave.
“They could have surrendered a long time ago and saved us from all this suffering,” said the woman, who asked not to be named for fear of possible retribution if her criticism were made public.
Can’t tell if actual sentiment of a Gazan refugee or NYT bs’ing again.
If there’s one thing worse than getting ruled by Hamas, that’s Hamas unconditionally surrendering to Israel. What do you think would happen to Gaza’s borders if Netanyahu could do whatever the hell he wanted without insurgences nor opposition?
All my support to Gazans for them to regain their own self-determination and democracy, but this might be the worst possible moment for Hamas to disappear from existence.
Something else will just pop up in its place. A lot of people who never supported Hamas had their lives ruined and want revenge against both Israel and Hamas.
Sure, but in the meantime, Israel would have the capacity to do absolutely anything they want, which would permanently cripple Gazans. If you want proof, look at the settlers in the West Bank, who have been eating Palestinian territory uninterrupted because the Palestinian Authority plays nice with them, even though they’re criminals.
