Hamas said on Saturday its militants in Gaza were ready to confront Israeli attacks with "full force" after Israel's military widened its air and ground attacks on the Palestinian enclave.
    • TransplantedSconie@lemm.eeEnglish
      1710·
      11 months ago

      They set fire to babies. They already let the “Go Max Barbarian” toothpaste out of the tube. There’s no putting that shit back.

        • BassTurd@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1916·
          11 months ago

          Nah, fuck both sides. Indiscriminate killing is indiscriminate killing. Hamas is bad but carpet bombing hospitals isn’t better.

            • PatFusty@lemm.eeEnglish
              24·
              11 months ago

              Why lump all Isrealites with Netanyahu policy? Its a 2 way street

              • Deiskos@lemmy.worldEnglish
                86·
                11 months ago

                “It’s NoT iSrAeL iT’S jUsT nEtAnYaHu” smells very much like “It’s NoT rUsSiA iT’S jUsT pUtIn”.

      • SYLOH@lemmy.worldEnglish
        99·
        11 months ago

        A stance of “Both sides are bad” is just a stance that favors the Status Quo.
        The underdog needs the extra assistance, the superior doesn’t.
        So for that reason I’m pro-Israel, don’t want either side winning, don’t want aid to either side, so that defaults to a pro-Israel stance.
        I’m comfortable being labeled as such.

    • capital@lemmy.worldEnglish
      62·
      11 months ago

      Jan 26, 2006

      Fatah supporters took to the streets of Ramallah last night to celebrate a victory that was not theirs. The exit polls got it wrong. The faction founded by the late Yasser Arafat had not, in fact, won a narrow victory. Instead, it was roundly defeated by the radical Islamic organization Hamas.

      And by day, it was Hamas supporters who were jamming the streets. Running in their first national electoral outing, Hamas candidates won a huge victory, securing 76 seats to Fatah’s 43 in the Palestinian Legislative Council.

      https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/hamas-wins-palestinian-authority-elections

      • Grant_M@lemmy.caEnglish
        96·
        11 months ago

        What’s the date today? That was over 17 years ago. NOW the Gazan people are prisoners of Hamas. They need to be freed.

        • capital@lemmy.worldEnglish
          81·
          11 months ago

          June 15, 2021

          The poll found that 53% of Palestinians believe Hamas is “most deserving of representing and leading the Palestinian people,” while only 14% prefer Abbas’ secular Fatah party.

          https://apnews.com/article/hamas-middle-east-science-32095d8e1323fc1cad819c34da08fd87

          There’s the latest I could find. I’m open to seeing a later one but I’d be surprised to see a large swing in support in just a few years given the history.

          • Grant_M@lemmy.caEnglish
            46·
            11 months ago

            53% is very low from people knowing Hamas will murder them if they oppose them.

            • capital@lemmy.worldEnglish
              103·
              11 months ago

              Let’s plant a flag here and acknowledge that we’ve moved from “that poll is old” to “these polls can’t be trusted”.

              Were Fatah supporters murdered for voting against and then (prematurely) PUBLICLY celebrating Hamas’ loss? I couldn’t find anything with a quick search. Maybe you could link me?

              • Grant_M@lemmy.caEnglish
                37·
                11 months ago

                These people ‘vote’ with a gun held to their head. Do you understand how things work under authoritarian rule?

                • capital@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  91·
                  11 months ago

                  Were Fatah supporters murdered for voting against and then (prematurely) PUBLICLY celebrating Hamas’ loss? I couldn’t find anything with a quick search. Maybe you could link me?

        • capital@lemmy.worldEnglish
          56·
          11 months ago

          This is straight up, unmasked whataboutism. Yes, what you brought up also is bad.

          BUT. My comment was a direct reply to a comment suggesting the people of Palestine don’t support Hamas so I was dispelling that particular fiction.

            • capital@lemmy.worldEnglish
              34·
              11 months ago

              Literally, yes.

              Read up: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

              You can’t stay on topic. Why is that? I’ll help, it’s because you don’t want to admit I’m right and you’re grasping at anything rather than let yourself acknowledge it.

              I’ll help some more. This excerpt exactly explains what you did:

              denotes in a pejorative sense a procedure in which a critical question or argument is not answered or discussed, but retorted with a critical counter-question which expresses a counter-accusation

      • Grant_M@lemmy.caEnglish
        63·
        11 months ago

        It’s a good thing and the only way for any peace to begin.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Oct 27 (Reuters) - Two U.S. fighter jets struck weapons and ammunition facilities in Syria on Friday in retaliation for attacks on U.S. forces by Iranian-backed militia as concerns grew that the Israel-Hamas conflict may spread in the Middle East.

    The U.S. air strikes took place at roughly 4:30 a.m. on Friday (0130 GMT) near Abu Kamal, a Syrian town on the border with Iraq, and were carried out by two F-16 fighter jets using precision munitions, a U.S. defence official said.

    “These precision self-defence strikes are a response to a series of ongoing and mostly unsuccessful attacks against U.S. personnel in Iraq and Syria by Iranian-backed militia groups that began on October 17,” U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement.

    Biden has sent a rare message to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warning Tehran against targeting U.S. personnel in the Middle East, the White House said earlier on Thursday.

    Israel said on Friday military raids into Gaza were preparing “the next stage of the operation”, amid fears that a ground invasion of the Palestinian enclave could spark a wider Middle East conflict.

    A missile launched as part of fighting between Hamas and Israel struck an Egyptian resort town about 220 km (135 miles) from the Gaza Strip early on Friday, Egypt’s Al Qahera News reported, citing sources.

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