For mental health reasons, I had taken myself out of most political topics. But lately there seems to be a surge of talk about Palestine and Hamas (forgive me if I spelled this wrong). I do know it’s something to do with land rights, but it also seems to be so much more at the same time. I’m not trying to start any fights. I just want to understand. Thank you.

  • @[email protected]
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    -21 year ago

    Palestinians are denied human rights by Israel.

    Israel prevents formation of peaceful political groups in Gaza, but allows Hamas as “preferred opposition”.

    This supports Israel’s goal of genocide against Palestinians and provides a convenient excuse for bombing civilians.

      • @[email protected]
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        1 year ago

        and Israel responded (they had a right to) but it’s debatable whether the response was appropriate.

        Are you kidding me? Their “response” was bombing ~2 million innocent people out of their homes and telling them that they shouldn’t have been there. Imagine if someone from Japan bombed China, and China’s response was bombing random people in Tokyo.

        Their response was absolutely not appropriate unless you love genocide. The situation is not nuanced, people act like it is so they don’t have to take a side.

      • DaDragon
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        31 year ago

        That does leave out the highly questionable ‘settlements’ in Palestinian territories…

          • DaDragon
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            11 year ago

            The west bank counts as part of Palestine. That’s all I said. And to my knowledge Hamas uses those settlements to further their agenda of ‘Israel bad’.