“They could have surrendered a long time ago and saved us from all this suffering,” said the woman, who asked not to be named for fear of possible retribution if her criticism were made public.
Can't tell if actual sentiment of a Gazan refugee or NYT bs'ing again.
If there's one thing worse than getting ruled by Hamas, that's Hamas unconditionally surrendering to Israel. What do you think would happen to Gaza's borders if Netanyahu could do whatever the hell he wanted without insurgences nor opposition?
All my support to Gazans for them to regain their own self-determination and democracy, but this might be the worst possible moment for Hamas to disappear from existence.
Something else will just pop up in its place. A lot of people who never supported Hamas had their lives ruined and want revenge against both Israel and Hamas.
Both Hamas and Fatah are corrupt. However, it is impossible to have a free and fair democratic election under an Apartheid State. The Apartheid must end first before it is possible for Palestinians to have a free and fair election.
Hamas does torture and kill political rivals, and has been exposed for corruption. Fatah is also corrupt, seen as working at the behest of Israel at the expense of Palestinians in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Both have been funded by Israel as part of a Divide and Conquer tactic. Israel also has a long history of assassinating more moderate and leftist political Palestinian rivals.
Israel is to blame for the Apartheid, yes. Israel has also never stopped torturing or murdering Palestinians themselves, not that you care.
Hamas is obviously responsible for their own crimes against humanity, which have been reported by human rights organizations.
This is an analysis of the corruption within Hamas and Fatah. The existence of both are directly due to the violent Settler Colonialism and Apartheid. On top of that, Israel has funded both as a divide and conquer strategy.
If you don't like either, which is reasonable as neither do the majority of Palestinians, you need to support an end to the Apartheid in order for Palestinians to have a free and fair election. This isn't a difficult concept.
I think you should learn a bit more about the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict, because the only way that someone could believe that Israel isn’t ultimately responsible for the rise of Hamas is either ignorance or delusion.
In interviews with nearly a dozen Gaza residents in recent months, a number of them said they held Hamas responsible for starting the war and helping to bring death and destruction upon them, even as they blame Israel first and foremost.
Some of the Gazans who spoke to The New York Times said that Hamas knew it would be starting a devastating war with Israel that would cause heavy civilian casualties, but that it did not provide any food, water or shelter to help people survive it.
Hamas leaders have said they wanted to ignite a permanent state of war with Israel on all fronts as a way to revive the Palestinian cause and knew that the Israeli response would be big.
In March, the well-known Gaza photojournalist Motaz Azaiza caused a brief social media firestorm when he obliquely criticized Hamas after he left the territory.
He was one of a handful of young local journalists who rose to international prominence early in the war for documenting the death and destruction on social media.
And some residents of the territory have long felt that during each new round of war between Hamas and Israel, the group is seeking to raise its global profile and champion more universal Palestinian causes at the expense of ordinary Gazans.
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I’d rather argue they are willing to do so - in the hope for permanent ceasefire and peace.
Anything to stop the bombing, dying, starvation and everything else.
Israel has no intent to stop the bombing and starvation. That's why they have rejected any permanent ceasefire in exchange for hostages and insisted on only temporary ceasefires
Let's be honest though: if Israel stopped bombing immediately, do you think Hamas would stop randomly bombing and mortaring Israel? Sure, Israel is fucked up, but there's a certain point where Palestine needs to realize they'll never have peace with Hamas always looking to fight someone. It's like complaining about the crime in your neighbor but you refuse to tell the cops where the local drug house is even with all the anonymity that technology offers.
Israel has rejected Hamas's ridiculous offerings for "peace" because there will not be peace in Gaza until Hamas surrenders or is destroyed. On what planet do you think anyone is going to give terrorists their own state?
You want something banned that you disagree with, but clearly didn’t bother to read it- yet you get banned constantly for misinformation from not only this instance, but many others as well…