I provided a lot of information as to why Israel's government is actually to blame for this long term (they created Hamas in an attempt to quell secular dissent against their colonial regime), why Israel's defenders benefit from antisemitism, etc.How exactly did Israel create Hamas?
Here is the other article. https://time.com/6324221/hamas-origins-history/ Don't want to spam so I'm not sharing excerpts from this but the link is right here, easy and simple for you to open.Listen to former Israeli officials such as Brig. Gen. Yitzhak Segev, who was the Israeli military governor in Gaza in the early 1980s. Segev later told a New York Times reporter that he had helped finance the Palestinian Islamist movement as a “counterweight” to the secularists and leftists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Fatah party, led by Yasser Arafat (who himself referred to Hamas as “a creature of Israel.”)
“The Israeli government gave me a budget,” the retired brigadier general confessed, “and the military government gives to the mosques.”
“Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation,” Avner Cohen, a former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza for more than two decades, told the Wall Street Journal in 2009. Back in the mid-1980s, Cohen even wrote an official report to his superiors warning them not to play divide-and-rule in the Occupied Territories, by backing Palestinian Islamists against Palestinian secularists. “I … suggest focusing our efforts on finding ways to break up this monster before this reality jumps in our face,” he wrote.
They didn’t listen to him. And Hamas, as I explain in the fifth installment of my short film series for The Intercept on blowback, was the result. To be clear: First, the Israelis helped build up a militant strain of Palestinian political Islam, in the form of Hamas and its Muslim Brotherhood precursors; then, the Israelis switched tack and tried to bomb, besiege, and blockade it out of existence.
In the past decade alone, Israel has gone to war with Hamas three times — in 2009, 2012, and 2014 — killing around 2,500 Palestinian civilians in Gaza in the process. Meanwhile, Hamas has killed far more Israeli civilians than any secular Palestinian militant group. This is the human cost of blowback.
“When I look back at the chain of events, I think we made a mistake,” David Hacham, a former Arab affairs expert in the Israeli military who was based in Gaza in the 1980s, later remarked. “But at the time, nobody thought about the possible results.”
additionally, the oct 7th hamas attack did not happen in a vacuum but rather in response to decades of colonization and settler violence bankrolled by world powers
if i were to bring light onto any deaths other than the palestian ones at the moment, it would first be with the secondarmenian genocide that is occuring in azerbaijan, or the mass exploitation and deaths in the congo, or the ongoing sudanese conflict, or any issue where true innocent lives are being lost in masse.
“True innocent lives”, eh? Well, that answers my question above. I find it interesting that your capacity for empathy is so limited that you feel the need to rank the value of victims of mass murder by ethnicity, and Jewish lives don’t make the cut. Very interesting indeed.
susan, the only innocent lives in israel are children. everyone else is a settler and/or a soldier.So murdering unarmed civilians at a music festival is ok, as long as the victims are Jews in Israel? Is that how it works?
saying that there's a military headquarter underneath that hospital is just as absurd as saying that the earth is flat...Is it really though? You may be skeptical of recent evidence from IDF, and that’s fine. But it’s been well established that Hamas operates a vast network of underground tunnels under civilian areas to shield against airstrikes. Even the Guardian says there is truth to the claim.
and it has already been proven that decapitated babies are fake news.Has it? I’d truly like to see that proof. But assuming you’re right, how does leaving their heads attached justify the killing of innocent children?
and let's be honest? usa and israel don't care if they are taking jewish or palestinian lives. it's just business to them.You’re welcome to hold that opinion. Other opinions are available.
the key is to disconnect israel from judaism.The key to what, exactly?
israel only uses judaism to excuse its vile and cruel actions.Another fascinating opinion.
and keep in mind that i'm talking about politicians and not the general population of israel.You mean like the Israeli families who were slaughtered by Hamas terrorists at the music festival on Oct 7?
politicians, no matter their origin, are dirty people with dirty interests. we should not believe them.Does that include the leaders of Hamas?
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