• TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Reading these comments is fucking insane.

    Calling Hamas “freedom fighters” is an insult to every real current and past freedom fighter in history of mankind.

    Freedom fighters dont choose targets that are exclusively civilian, they don’t hunt down and execute civilians, nit caring about their beliefs or standing. They don’t spread terror among the civilian population. All of these things make the thing they are fighting stronger and puts the rest of the population against them. It’s what terrorists do.

    Why do you think people in the zionist government support Hamas?! Because it serves to justify the hanous things the government does against Palestinians as a whole.

    Real freedom fighters choose infrastructure, smaller military targets (that are reachable), political assassinations of the government officials they are against, et cetera.

    These cause civilian casualties, but the civilian casualties are not the goal, they are the byproduct.

    Palestinians deserve so much more than Hamas, but Hamas won’t let them choose. They silence or kill anyone who disagrees with them, be it Israeli of Palestinian.

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸

    Fuck Hamas.

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      She did clarify that she was talking about Palestinian civilians filming the missile attacks on civilian homes and such, calling them freedom fighters for documenting atrocities

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      It’s what terrorists do.

      This particular sentence is not entirely correct, as it implies that freedom fighters can’t use terror tactics and thus be terrorists.

      Say, if some Armenian force (there are none that’d have the balls) would bomb the Mingechaur dam, the pipes and infrastructure going through Tovuz, other smaller hydroelectric objects etc in Azerbaijan, - these would be actions aimed at fighting for freedom, but very important part of their effect would be terror.

      In some way any violent activity aimed at denying someone their feeling of safety is terrorism. Like, say, allied bombing campaign of Germany (its goals were even formulated like that).

      I agree that Hamas are not freedom fighters, their ideology is pretty Nazi.

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        There is again difference between blowing up a strategic dam and attacking a concert full of civilians.

        First can have some actual strategic importance, cutting out energy, interrupting travel, et cetera.

        It causes terror and civilian causalities, but that is again, a byproduct. If the latter is greater than the former it doesn’t add to the revolutionary goal, I would argue it damages it and causes more harm than good for the group.

        Second is pure terror, it serves no purpose for the group, vilianizes them to the public and makes the government they are fighting against stronger.

        Any action that doesn’t help with a revolutionary goal or even detracts from it, is useless.

        Any action with no strategic importance and only creating terror is not only evil, but harms the group more then it helps.

        There is a massive difference between terrorism and freedom fighting.

        I am not saying freedom fighting groups don’t do terrorism, we dont live in a perfect world. What I am saying that terrorism has no benefits and only harms not only the innocent but also the group commiting it.

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      There is no such thing as “real freedom fighters” War is not a moral thought experiment.Terrorism is at the end of the day a a military strategy. Which freedom figheters, militas and regular armiees use all the time.

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      Hamas hunt down and execute civilians? I mean I’m pro Hamas, but even if you think they are evil, you know they need them for Negotiations and hostage exchange right?

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        Yes. Literary, yes. Hunting down and killing random civilians was their stated goal.

        They might say that they took the hostages for negotiations, but it’s much more likely they took them as human shields. Just how they always used innocent palestinians.

        It’s funny how you can unironcally say that you are pro hamas. You might as well be pro ISIS or pro Taliban.

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          Pro Taliban yes, pro ISIS no. They are different things.
          Where did Hamas state their goal is hunting down civilians? Do you follow their Telegram Channel, or that of the spokeperson Abu_'ubaidah or Al-Jazeerah? I mean you can say this is their real goal that you deducted from watching media, but not the stated. Hamas are not even using hate speech against Jews or Israeli group anymore, they declare their enemy as Zionism.
          Besides you say Hamas are using human shields, Hamas actually have a network underground, so they are always away from Israeli bombing and they state that. It is literally a hobby for Netenyaho to bomb Palestinian Civilians to pressure them so they turn back against Hamas, exactly how Terrorist movements work.

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    This smells really fishy. They quote her directly when it comes to her taking the side of Palestinians in general (aka, the oppressed population) but when it comes to her supposed support of Hamas in particular, all there is in the article is a paraphrase of THEIR version, not a direct quote.

    Sounds like a political hit job.

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      There’s this idea going around that directly quoting the thing a person got cancelled for is spreading whatever hate they were spreading.

      The obvious side effect of such a practice is that people who get silenced never get their side of the story told.

      I find that sketchy as well

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        Actually, it turned out that the article DOES directly quote what she was cancelled for. It was just that the article made it sound like she’d declared her undying loyalty to Hamas when in actual fact she hadn’t even mentioned them. I’m just gonna copy a comment of mine from earlier today explaining the whole thing:

        Can someone please tell the freedom fighters in Palestine to flip their phones and film horizontal," she wrote on the platform on Saturday.

        That’s all. If you’re very inattentive or deliberately misinterpreting her words, you’d think that she was endorsing Hamas as “freedom fighters”.

        But if you DO pay attention and know anything, you’ll notice that she never mentions Hamas and know that Hamas aren’t usually the ones filming any of their atrocities. Add her clarification from a few days later and it’s clear that she did NOT endorse Hamas and is the victim of character assassination because she had the temerity to speak up against the apartheid regime:

        I just want to make it clear that this statement in no way shape or form is [inciting] spread of violence," she said. "I specifically said freedom fighters because that’s what the Palestinian citizens are… fighting for freedom every day.

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      And definitely not praising the people who just went through a music festival with guns and indiscriminately killed people and dragged off other ones.

      A woman whose husband is missing was being interviewed. She said that whenever her baby would cry in their hiding place, bullets would fly through the wall of the shed where they were hiding.

      Why anyone would have praise for that organization I cannot fathom.

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      Since she was joking about civilians executions, I think they were pro go fuck yourself mia

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    “If you can look at the situation and not be on the side of Palestinians, then you are on the wrong side of apartheid and history will show that in time,”

    This post on her part was fine, but the other one…not so much. She should have stuck with this one only, rather than whatever the frick murderous thing that other post was.

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      Keep in mind she was a Lebanese refugee that lived through the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel. I’m not condoning anything she said but she has a somewhat understandable view of the whole situation.

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        lived through the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel

        And what about the conflict between actual Lebanon and what became Hezbollah?

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          Dunno why this is getting downvoted, the only Lebanese folks who don’t despise Hazbollah are Hezbollah, and the Iranian dispatched clerics.

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          Israel just murdered 200 children in 3 days, so far. Was that justified?

          Oh, but they’re Palestinian so they don’t count. Otherwise people like you would have lost their minds decades ago.

          When the Hamas murders children it’s terrorism, it’s an atrocity, it’s inhuman (and I agree).

          When the IDF murders children it’s Tuesday.

          It’s on the news every day. And people like you couldn’t care less.

          Keep chewing on that nice Zionist propaganda. I choose humanity.

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            Why can’t we condemn both?

            Hamas committed atrocities and Israel has responded with atrocities. That doesn’t make calling Hamas “freedom fighters” in this context any less deplorable.

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        What does being Jewish have to do with Israel? Are you conflating the two? Blaming Jews for what Israel has been doing for decades is pretty anti-semetic.

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          No it’s just that Jews have gotten prickly about anyone criticizing Israel because of how much trouble anti-zionism has had banishing anti-semitism from trying to infiltrate.

          It’s only changed because the Neonazis have absorbed enough evangelicals to decide they like the jews having Israel now because battle of Armageddon and “I know revelations says it is impossible to know when the rapture will happen but I’m gonna try and make it happen anyways like an absolute dumbass!”

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      Is there a quote for the other post? I heard it was just paraphrased, so we don’t know what she actually said

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        Can someone please tell the freedom fighters in Palestine to flip their phones and film horizontal," she wrote on the platform on Saturday.

        That’s all. If you’re very inattentive or deliberately misinterpreting her words, you’d think that she was endorsing Hamas as “freedom fighters”.

        But if you DO pay attention and know anything, you’ll notice that she never mentions Hamas and know that Hamas aren’t usually the ones filming any of their atrocities. Add her clarification from a few days later and it’s clear that she did NOT endorse Hamas and is the victim of character assassination because she had the temerity to speak up against the apartheid regime:

        I just want to make it clear that this statement in no way shape or form is [inciting] spread of violence," she said. "I specifically said freedom fighters because that’s what the Palestinian citizens are… fighting for freedom every day.

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            There are other kinds of fighting than violence on a grand scale. Regular Palestinians are fighting the apartheid regime in ways big and small every day.

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              Thanks, that’s pretty much what I figured you’d say. The down vote was a nice touch.

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                Yeah, I have this odd quirk of downvoting sealions when they ask bad faith questions with obvious answers that they refuse to accept. I’m kooky like that!

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    Ah yes, more misrepresentation and intentional misinterpretation of commentary in order to support the Zionist agenda. She didn’t praise or even mention Hamas in her comment at all. This article is just another cog in the propaganda machine.

    This pro-Israeli propaganda cycle has been the most disgusting I’ve ever seen. People that never have a comment on anything are coming out of the woodwork, frothing at the mouth over anyone speaking out against state-backed ethnic cleansing and genocide.

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸

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    I came here thinking this sounds like she might be getting woke-cancelled for suggesting Israel is pure as driven snow…

    Khalifa even urged Hamas fighters to “flip their phones and film” executions horizontally in one of her posts.

    Nevermind, she can go fuck herself with a cactus.

    If you think military fighters executing civilians is an acceptable strategy, you probably deserve to be among those civilians and see how you like it.

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    What a shit article. All she did was support the Palestinian cause and now they’re putting shit in her mouth (no pun intended).

    I don’t like how the narrative is being forced in this conflict. They are clearing the way for something very sinister. We’re about to witness a western sanctioned genocide. There’s no way Israel is letting this opportunity go.

    Something is going to happen soon in the West Bank too, I call it.

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      you mean another Western sanctioned genocide?

      China with Uyghurs has been going on for a while with no response from the west.

      Saudi Arabia, UAE etc wih Yemen, the weapons were sold for ot by the west.

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        I’m not sure how you consider the Uyghurs a western sanctioned genocide, if anything it’s only the western media that is drawing any attention to it whatsoever.

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            So… The west is the only one who gives a damn, but somehow it’s their fault because they’re not doing enough?

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              does the west give a damn though?

              media reporting it I don’t really qualify as giving a damn.

              I would also wager that if I go out on the street here in slovakia and start asking people about it most people would look at me like an idiot and say, WTF is “Uyghurs”?

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    So solidarity with Israel is “cool” and “supporting the cause” but god forbid you actually say something for the oppressed. Fuck them

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      What does that have to do with her explicitly stating her approval of the execution and murder videos?

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        Did she actually do so? From whats posted here she made a poor taste joke criticizing their filming. While perhaps bad judgment, that alone isn’t remotely supporting anything.