Thousands of Palestinians chanted against Hamas during anti-war protests last week in the Gaza Strip, the biggest show of anger at the militant group since its attack on Israel ignited the war.
Protesters said they were venting anger and desperation as they endure a new round of war and displacement after Israel ended a ceasefire. They leveled unusually direct criticism at Hamas even while remaining furious at Israel, the United States and others for their plight.
Public expressions of dissent have been extremely rare since Hamas seized power in Gaza in 2007. The militant group has violently dispersed occasional protests and jailed, tortured or killed those who challenged its rule. Hamas has faced no significant internal challenge since the start of the war and still controls Gaza, despite losing most of its top leaders and thousands of fighters.
I actually can’t tell you which one is worse if someone asked me that question. Israel is definitely trying to make nazis proud, but at least they would not personally execute my whole family just because I’m not a muslim who listens to music.
One personally wants to kill me, other one is doing the killings already
While they’re victims, obviously everyone including me leans towards giving Hamas benefit of doubt, but I feel like if roles would be reversed, you’d see a genocide on the levels not redditors could even defend it
Note that I’m not talking about Palestinians, but Hamas, which is a different breed
Man, they are literally executing anyone they see for just existing in Gaza. Americans, health workers, ambulances. They literally said that babies born in Gaza are already terrorists. They make prisoners confess that they are Hamas by threatening to drone their whole family. So yes, they do execute your whole family just because they live there.
I’m genuinely not aware of most things you mentioned, but to be fair I live in east Europe and my head is full with Russian invasion right now
Then maybe you should not speak of something you don’t know or care about and focus on what is going on around you especially the part where “Israel votes against UN motion condemning Russian invasion of Ukraine”
So you can tell who is worse in this situation? The genocidal invaders, right?
Not much difference.
Gaza already has Christians so clearly they’re not executing people just for not being model Muslims.
That is simply not based in reality. Hamas does some horrid things don’t get me wrong, but they’re fundamentally an authoritarian state rather than a genocidal state.
And we never saw one turning into the other when authority struggled?
Yes. The zio regime turned genocidal almost immediately upon its inception. It was always the explicit plan.
Mostly no? Struggling authoritarian states seek, among other things, war, but they do not as a rule commit genocide. That’s mostly a fascist thing.
So USSR under Stalin, Sudan, Myanmar, Rwanda, etc. they don’t count?
The zio terror regime doesn’t count?
I never said authoritarian states can’t commit genocide, but rather that they usually don’t use it as a way to support their regimes unless they turn fascist. The Holodomor was a way for Stalin to suppress Ukrainian independence, while the other three were long-running ethnic conflicts exacerbated by malicious and/or incompetent European decolonization.
Splitting hair imho
The point I’m trying to make is that Hamas won’t turn to genocide simply to gain popularity (though I do expect quite a few massacres); either they’ll do it even if they’re popular or they won’t even if they’re unpopular, and I’m leaning towards the latter.
I also don’t think that Hamas will commit genocide. They will commit, as usual, terrorist attacks and keeping them in power is instrumental to the genocide perpetrated by Israel.
They’re not even a state but an anti-genocide resistance movement.
Who is worse: the people committing genocide or the people suffering from it? It’s not a complicated.