That’s like a Make-a-Wish kid thanking cancer for making them famous Etc. I think most Make-a-Wish kids would just wish that they didn’t have cancer. Hamas has literally done nothing for the Palestinians since they managed to gain power. Just make things worse while working in cahoots with Israel.
I think most Make-a-Wish kids would just wish that they didn’t have cancer.
True, but the cancer in this analogy is Israel, which exists in both scenarios.
Hamas has literally done nothing for the Palestinians since they managed to gain power. Just make things worse while working in cahoots with Israel.
In what way did you expect things to get better for Palestinians? I mean I’m not defending Hamas’s tyranny in Gaza, but there’s a very clear limit to how possible it is to improve things even with the best of intentions (which Hamas doesn’t have, to be clear). After the Second Intifada Israel blockaded Gaza, the Quarter (aka almost literally everyone) imposed sanctions on Palestine, Fatah launched a coup with US backing and Israel and Egypt used that as an excuse to impose the much harsher blockade that was in place until 2023. The only way for anything to get better under these conditions is to change the situation that created them, aka the Israeli occupation, and this is one thing Hamas has been successful at. To borrow your Make-a-Wish analogy, the hope is that becoming famous might lead to the kids getting treatment rather than whips.
I never implied wasn’t a cancer. But this situation is like cheering for a brain tumor to kill a patient first before the colon cancer does. When the Palestinian people who are the patient in this analogy are just being ravaged from both ends.
As long as the genocidal Zionist who founded Israel are still in charge of Israel, and as long as they largely have Western support. There is zero militarily, Hama’s can do to make the lives of Palestinians better. Does that mean they shouldn’t fight back? No. But let me ask you this. Can you point to any public works, aid or assistance to the Palestinian people by Hamas? Has hamas as a government behaved as a government. Or have they only ever largely waged war? Genuine question.
I get it, the PLO accomplished very little for the Palestinians as well. That’s how Hamas gained power. Hamas existing, doesn’t justify Hamas existing. What have they done for the palestinians? And why shouldn’t they be cast aside as other groups were. The main reason they haven’t been. Is because they would kill the very Palestinians that would do it. The very Palestinians they claim to be fighting for.
As long as the genocidal Zionist who founded Israel are still in charge of Israel, and as long as they largely have Western support. There is zero militarily, Hama’s can do to make the lives of Palestinians better.
In the short term no, but in the long term? There very much is. The staggering growth of the Palestinian solidarity movement over the last 20 years has been and remains to be a massive threat to Israel’s long-term continued existence via initiatives such as BDS, and the countdown on their demise really started with October 7th. It’s easy to lose sight of this given that Gazans are currently victims of genocide (which, well, yeah our focus should be on the genocide) but this is big. If Gaza somehow survives this genocide, Hamas will have both mass death and destruction and a massive, conflict-shaping accomplishment under their belt. Not saying the genocide is a good thing; of course it’s horrible, but when history books are trying to explain how Palestinians got their freedom (or died trying), half the text is going to be “Hamas did this so Israel did that and their popularity with their most ardent supporters plunged again.”
Can you point to any public works, aid or assistance to the Palestinian people by Hamas? Has hamas as a government behaved as a government. Or have they only ever largely waged war? Genuine question.
I’m not sure it’s possible or preferable for Hamas to build public works since they would almost immediately be bombed to oblivion, but they do a lot of the other stuff. They’re definitely pretty corrupt, though.
That’s how Hamas gained power. Hamas existing, doesn’t justify Hamas existing. What have they done for the palestinians? And why shouldn’t they be cast aside as other groups were.
Don’t get me wrong I’m not defending Hamas’s role as the leading Palestinian resistance organization; I would shed exactly zero tears if they were overthrown tomorrow. Nothing they’re doing justifies the way they run Gaza, but that’s one thing and the idea that they’ve done nothing to make Palestinians’ lives better is another.
That’s like a Make-a-Wish kid thanking cancer for making them famous Etc. I think most Make-a-Wish kids would just wish that they didn’t have cancer. Hamas has literally done nothing for the Palestinians since they managed to gain power. Just make things worse while working in cahoots with Israel.
True, but the cancer in this analogy is Israel, which exists in both scenarios.
In what way did you expect things to get better for Palestinians? I mean I’m not defending Hamas’s tyranny in Gaza, but there’s a very clear limit to how possible it is to improve things even with the best of intentions (which Hamas doesn’t have, to be clear). After the Second Intifada Israel blockaded Gaza, the Quarter (aka almost literally everyone) imposed sanctions on Palestine, Fatah launched a coup with US backing and Israel and Egypt used that as an excuse to impose the much harsher blockade that was in place until 2023. The only way for anything to get better under these conditions is to change the situation that created them, aka the Israeli occupation, and this is one thing Hamas has been successful at. To borrow your Make-a-Wish analogy, the hope is that becoming famous might lead to the kids getting treatment rather than whips.
I never implied wasn’t a cancer. But this situation is like cheering for a brain tumor to kill a patient first before the colon cancer does. When the Palestinian people who are the patient in this analogy are just being ravaged from both ends.
As long as the genocidal Zionist who founded Israel are still in charge of Israel, and as long as they largely have Western support. There is zero militarily, Hama’s can do to make the lives of Palestinians better. Does that mean they shouldn’t fight back? No. But let me ask you this. Can you point to any public works, aid or assistance to the Palestinian people by Hamas? Has hamas as a government behaved as a government. Or have they only ever largely waged war? Genuine question.
I get it, the PLO accomplished very little for the Palestinians as well. That’s how Hamas gained power. Hamas existing, doesn’t justify Hamas existing. What have they done for the palestinians? And why shouldn’t they be cast aside as other groups were. The main reason they haven’t been. Is because they would kill the very Palestinians that would do it. The very Palestinians they claim to be fighting for.
In the short term no, but in the long term? There very much is. The staggering growth of the Palestinian solidarity movement over the last 20 years has been and remains to be a massive threat to Israel’s long-term continued existence via initiatives such as BDS, and the countdown on their demise really started with October 7th. It’s easy to lose sight of this given that Gazans are currently victims of genocide (which, well, yeah our focus should be on the genocide) but this is big. If Gaza somehow survives this genocide, Hamas will have both mass death and destruction and a massive, conflict-shaping accomplishment under their belt. Not saying the genocide is a good thing; of course it’s horrible, but when history books are trying to explain how Palestinians got their freedom (or died trying), half the text is going to be “Hamas did this so Israel did that and their popularity with their most ardent supporters plunged again.”
I’m not sure it’s possible or preferable for Hamas to build public works since they would almost immediately be bombed to oblivion, but they do a lot of the other stuff. They’re definitely pretty corrupt, though.
Don’t get me wrong I’m not defending Hamas’s role as the leading Palestinian resistance organization; I would shed exactly zero tears if they were overthrown tomorrow. Nothing they’re doing justifies the way they run Gaza, but that’s one thing and the idea that they’ve done nothing to make Palestinians’ lives better is another.
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