I don't think you want to stay something bad. In fact despite what others might think and even if I have a little bit upfront with you I think your hearth is well placed here. I've seen you question zionism and Israel multiple time so I think you can understand.
You need to understand that the war never stopped. For Palestinian it has been going on for more than 70 years. Again. It's not a simple war, it's a genocide in response of people who went too far in the resistance against apartheid.
To give you an example, it would be like if Nazis in the 40' decided to bomb and kill all french if somehow the resistance entered Berlin to kill 1000 civilians and soldiers while kidnapping others in the deep land of France.
The action would be a crime of war and an act of war against oppression, but the response, the genocide following would still be a crime against humanity.
And the war would not have started with the action of the resistance. The war began with the oppression of people and the moment a resistance was formed, it's still going on and it will go on even after this cease fire because Israel is STILL an apartheid state.
I think Israel and Palestine have been caught in a cycle of radicalization where both sides have become more and more intolerant to the idea of peace and coexistence since like the 2000s.
I think of you look at the polls, 20 years ago both sides were in favor of a 2 state solution whereas now you just had the bloodiest war in Palestinian history.
I think Israel has done much to make the situation worse, colonizing the West Bank and putting in power far right radicals like the Netanyahu administration. But also, I think Hamas has conflicting interests.
Rather than simply acting in their people’s best interest, they are Iran’s proxy’s. The fact of the matter is they are not strong enough to offer any sort of meaningful resistance to Israel’s power save for terrorism. If they were practical, they would just acknowledge this and try to work with Israel while only resisting in instances where they could clearly have something to gain.
but they don’t do this. Their resistance seems more like it’s in the favor of Iran than their own people.
Sure the conflict has been going on for 70 years, but Hamas escalated needlessly and brought nothing but ruin for their people.
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And not even with Israel, Hamas doesn’t even have good relations with Egyot
Egypt controls one of their borders and has it tightly sealed because they don’t want Hamas spreading their conflict with Israel over to Egypt.
Stuff like this just makes it hard for me to see Hamas as good faith actors.
I do support some aspects of Palestinian resistance tho. I think the 2018 protests and the flotilla thing were a good way for Gazans to protest Israel’s blockade.
It is horrible that Israel used excessive force and killed those protesters. But at the very least much of those people voluntarily put their lives on the line by showing up to protest. Which is more than can be said for the thousands dead in Gaza as a result of October 7th.