They won a slim majority in 2006 and then swiftly culled Fatah (and PA) opposition and killed a bunch of journalists too. They haven’t had elections since, and a significant portion of the people in Gaza are under 18 years of age… so no they didn’t ask for it.
They also didn’t ask to get forced into the concentration camp that is the Gaza Strip by the Israeli state, Plan Dalet, and the Haganah. If you read the history of Palestine > British Mandate > Israel, it shouldn’t be a surprise that there’s a desperate resistance that formed, horrific actions aside.
Trump won by a slim margin too, and is currently seizing control. If the US doesn’t have an election in the next 15 years, do the American people have zero responsibility for what its future government might do?
Zero responsibility, no; many did vote for him , but significantly more didn’t. If you want to hunt down the people who voted for him, sure, but I voted against him in every election knowing something like this would happen, and I’m not responsible for it. The same can be said of a significant amount of Americans. To lump us all together would be like bombing a hospital full of innocent victims to get at some members of Hamas.
as jaderick already pointed out, around 50% of gazans are 18 or younger. if the usa was involved in a conflict that killed basically everyone who originally voted for fascists over those 15 years, you would have a point.
or are you actually trying to make people responsible for a vote that they didnt partake in due to their lack of… existence?
My disparaging response comes from arguing with dipshits on Reddit about Israel who will only accept Likud party propaganda as the only credible source.
They won a slim majority in 2006 and then swiftly culled Fatah (and PA) opposition and killed a bunch of journalists too. They haven’t had elections since, and a significant portion of the people in Gaza are under 18 years of age… so no they didn’t ask for it.
They also didn’t ask to get forced into the concentration camp that is the Gaza Strip by the Israeli state, Plan Dalet, and the Haganah. If you read the history of Palestine > British Mandate > Israel, it shouldn’t be a surprise that there’s a desperate resistance that formed, horrific actions aside.
Adding links:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Dalet
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate_for_Palestine
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip_under_Hamas
I’m very aware of the history.
Trump won by a slim margin too, and is currently seizing control. If the US doesn’t have an election in the next 15 years, do the American people have zero responsibility for what its future government might do?
Zero responsibility, no; many did vote for him , but significantly more didn’t. If you want to hunt down the people who voted for him, sure, but I voted against him in every election knowing something like this would happen, and I’m not responsible for it. The same can be said of a significant amount of Americans. To lump us all together would be like bombing a hospital full of innocent victims to get at some members of Hamas.
as jaderick already pointed out, around 50% of gazans are 18 or younger. if the usa was involved in a conflict that killed basically everyone who originally voted for fascists over those 15 years, you would have a point.
or are you actually trying to make people responsible for a vote that they didnt partake in due to their lack of… existence?
My disparaging response comes from arguing with dipshits on Reddit about Israel who will only accept Likud party propaganda as the only credible source.