• raccoona_nongrata@beehaw.org
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    10 months ago

    It’s less that Hamas is good (only a sociopath would be for macheteing women and children, obviously) it’s more that Hamas is not some tidy organization with clearly defined ideological borders around it, it’s more of a general banner for those who seek resistance through violence, which is not something you can bomb and genocide out of existence. We see this playing out as Israelis find themselves having to just wipe out civilians en mass to fight their “war with Hamas”.

    Israeli propaganda benefits from being able to define everyone they kill as card carrying members of a terrorist group, as if they’re fighting a war against some professional standing army, but the reality is not really that clear. You can ask two people what Hamas is and get totally different answers.

    It’s not worth even asking the question “Is Hamas good or bad?”, it’s a question that only occurs under a complete misapprehension of the situation in Gaza and Palestine.