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Hamas tried to send fighters to Egypt in ambulances for wounded Gazans — US official
(www.timesofisrael.com)
this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2023
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A highly divided topic is bound to have a larger percentage of downvotes, but votes don't matter so why care?
I don't actually care about votes it just shows how bitter some people are, and want to bury facts that conflict with whatever their entrenched position is to steer the conversation.
Believing there is a righteous cause side here (as in in Gaza) other than the actual civilians who don't celebrate and materially support violence against other civilians is a fools errand. Also fuck settlers in the west bank and Netanyahu im not even touching that with a ten foot pole it's just bad.
Unfortunately the situation had deteriorated to the point that Hamas is actively hurting their own people's chances at a peaceful life directly. It's just a tragedy.
Edit: lmfao at the salty loser who went through the entire comment history on this account and down voted every comment. That's all you can do, along with raging online, you aren't in the Levant. You're not from there. We don't care about your opinions.
Sadly both governments have no desire to discuss a peaceful solution. They both just want to keep killing.
I popped off at the now removed comment under my other reply so this isn't directed at you, but thought I would repost it so other people could see it. It is incredibly demeaning, infantilizing, and insulting how westerners and lefties from the rest of the global south twist this conflict and the historical context around it. My mother is actually an Afro-Cuban refugee with a family with many members who fled the Castro regime for reasons other than being white American business people. He would jail them by the thousand, rape, and beat them. My Pale-fucking-stinian dad married my mom because she had a child, my brother, who no one was going to care for. Meanwhile lefties defend the Castro and modern regime on the basis of it improving literacy and Healthcare. My now orphaned reply follows:
I'm from the area. Family been there for 500+ years.
If Israel is an apartheid state so is the US, Canada, and every other Arab nation that allows cross borders workers under shit conditions. It's especially bad in the gulf states, they steal passports from immigrants and turn them into modern day slaves.
The shit in the west bank is indeed bad and a new government needs to prosecute to the fullest extent anyone participating.
I've lived through this conflict my entire life.
When Black September happened the Jordanian army actually Indiscriminately shelled the Palestinian refugee camps killing so so many.
It's ok I know all the keyboard warriors from the west only want to hear from "the right Palestinians". I have stuff my dad gave me from the 1700s Ottoman Empire before he died. His grandfather got murdered for not being down with the cause of Arab nationalism post ww1 when they started killing the local jews and dissenters, not the European zionists, the people who were local community leaders for generations.
I'm sorry you and your family went through this. But just because Arab nationalists were not good people in a lot of situation doesn't really have much bearing on the current reality. Whether you like the Fidayieen or not doesn't make your views on this digestible. The one honest position you can and should now is to be opposed to Israeli oppression because you understand what it's like to live under an oppressed system.
Edit: and yeah I will continue you downvote you and disagree because despite your personal story, your opinions honestly suck and sometimes look like they are taken straight from IDF propaganda which everyone has lots trust in.
I think the best thing to hope for is the complete removal of the governmental apparatus of Hamas and a 20 year (1+ generation) re-education campaign to "de-nazify" the civilian population. Japan and Germany are now staunch US allies despite a similar level of bombing and destruction. This should be coupled with extensive infrastructure build up to improve the life of the civilians in Gaza.
The first step there is unfortunately rooting out the governmental apparatus of the region....
I'm from the area. Family been there for 500+ years.
If Israel is an apartheid state so is the US, Canada, and every other Arab nation that allows cross borders workers under shit conditions. It's especially bad in the gulf states, they steal passports from immigrants and turn them into modern day slaves.
The shit in the west bank is indeed bad and a new government needs to prosecute to the fullest extent anyone participating.
I've lived through this conflict my entire life.
When Black September happened the Jordanian army actually Indiscriminately shelled the Palestinian refugee camps killing so so many.
Edit: It's ok I know all the keyboard warriors from the west only want to hear from "the right Palestinians". I have stuff my dad gave me from the 1700s Ottoman Empire before he died. His grandfather got murdered for not being down with the cause of Arab nationalism post ww1 when they started killing the local jews and dissenters, not the European zionists, the people who were local community leaders for generations.
israel is an apartheid state. so is the usa, but not for the reason you're suggesting. the people you're talking about can return to a sovereign nation with borders and taxes and armies. the subjugated indigenous people are relegated to open air prisons just like the palestinians are, though.
Hamas are a lot of things but they are not the Nazis. We reserve that name to Israel actually committing a genocide now.