• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      What’s your point? Because Hamas are an extremist dictatorship it’s okay to deprive the civilian population of food and water, and bomb indiscriminately?

      Half the population are children. Do they also deserve to suffer?

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        11 months ago

        Not at all! my point was that people seem to see this as a “State of Israel” vs “the people of Palestine and Hamas” issue, when in reality we all need to call out Hamas for what they are.

    • jet@hackertalks.com
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      11 months ago

      2006/2007 - the results didn’t go the way external parties would have liked…

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatah–Hamas_conflict

      There was a bit of a coup and intervention, and then Palestine was effectively fractured with two defacto governments. As far as I can tell from the internet, Hamas runs as a religious dictatorship since 2007.

      A pretty good video summary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is6hIUw0KzM