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More than 10,000 Palestinians have been killed in the month since Hamas' terrorist attacks inside southern Israel, the group's health ministry in Gaza says.

But Hamas officials say the mounting death toll, believed to include thousands of children, has not caused the group to regret its actions in southern Israel, which Israeli officials said killed 1,400 people.

In fact, Hamas leaders say that their goal was to trigger this very response and that they're still hoping for a bigger war. It's all part of a strategy, they say, to derail talks over Israel normalizing relations with regional powers — namely, Saudi Arabia — and draw the world's attention to the Palestinian cause.

Hamas, these officials say, is more interested in the destruction of Israel than what it sees as the temporary hardships faced by Palestinians under Israeli bombardment.

"What could change the equation was a great act, and without a doubt, it was known that the reaction to this great act would be big," Khalil al-Hayya, a member of the group's governing politburo, told The New York Times in an interview.

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[–] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com -4 points 11 months ago (40 children)

What choice did they realistically have? Be strangled out slowly by Israel while watching settlers pushing borders slowly but surely? No one has given a shit about Palestine since before ISIS / Syria, by my recollection.

That said it's also, of course, completely inexcusable to kill and take hostage civilians no matter the underlying justifications they might have.

This is just a shit storm about 80 years in the making. And there just isn't a solution in sight.

[–] 5BC2E7@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (3 children)

They could have abandoned their goal and seek coexistence. But using your logic ask yourself what choice does israel have as a response to an enemy like hamas?

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What is happening in the West Bank right now where there is no Hamas? Are you purposely ignoring that israel is giving paramilitary terrorists weapons to shoot innocent Palestinians AND protects those Israeli terrorists with their army?

ISRAEL is the party that does not want peace. They have openly stated they want to ethnically cleanse Palestine. Their government has stated wanting to nuke Gaza.

[–] 5BC2E7@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I am sure that they have all sorts of people and some of them were always this way but I suspect they were radicalized with the terrorist attacks. I mean at a personal level if someone kills your family you’d probably don’t care about nuances or context. It just happens that they have more means to carry out their “vengeance”.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

My man these terror Zionists have been shooting innocent Palestinians in the west bank wayyy before Oct 7.

Oct 7 was done as a response to these terror Zionists. Hamas cited it as a direct reason for their counter offensive.

You can use your comment to justify the Hamas members, but not the israeli colonists purposely seeking conflict and killing Palestinians.

[–] 5BC2E7@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I know the world didn’t start on October 7. The pogroms have been going on for millenniums.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Don't blame the Palestinians for the Europeans and Americans which love throwing religious minorities under the bus. If the Zionists want revenge on Germany they seen to have taken a wrong exit on the highway.

Also this.

https://youtu.be/8RVoPZPKxLY?si=H-Cz14daVxpHXSHO

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[–] 5BC2E7@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

WW2 is recent history in the context of anti semitism. to give you an idea here is a selected list of pogroms of the last 2000 years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogrom#Selected_list

EDIT: I guess you don't want to accept that you lack basic knowledge on the issue.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Did the Palestinians do ww2?

[–] 5BC2E7@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago

Ah look like they are using stupid bots to spread misinformation. Too bad it can’t understand what is being said.

[–] ASprigOfSage@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not bombing the shit out of innocent civilians and not committing war crimes is a great start for coexistence. To late for that now though... the only course from here is either a complete cease fire and the releasing of Palestine back to the plaistinians or complete brutal genocide of an entire group of people. It seems the governments of the world are attempting to choose the later...

[–] 5BC2E7@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This has been developing for longer than recent history. I sort of agree that israel should have continued one of the last 2-3 wars until the fundamentalist extremists surrendered or were killed. Instead of giving land back and attempting to serk peace. I think it was a mistake to try 5-6 times. after 2 or 3 it’s clear the enemy doesn’t want anything less than a war of extermination so they should give them that.

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[–] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com -3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The same as Hamas, not kill civilians indiscriminately. But both sides are horrible and I'm not the least bit interested in a breakdown of who's the worst. They both suck, and have for more than half a century.

That's why I say this is a shit storm loooong in the making.

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[–] DarkGamer@kbin.social 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (11 children)

What choice did they realistically have? Be strangled out slowly by Israel while watching settlers pushing borders slowly but surely?
there just isn’t a solution in sight.

There are non-violent solutions. They could come to terms with the fact they lost this conflict a long time ago, pacify themselves, and sue for a viable peace; that's the best path out of this long conflict I can see. Constant attacks against an enemy they cannot defeat is what led to their current miserable situation.

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[–] TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 11 months ago

Palestinians didn't have a choice on who "leads" them either. Hamas hasn't held a vote for 20 years.

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