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By MAYA ZANGER-NADIS NOVEMBER 12, 2023 19:09 Updated: NOVEMBER 12, 2023 21:26


Israeli security forces delivered 300 liters of diesel fuel to Shifa Hospital in Gaza early Sunday morning and later received intelligence indicating that Hamas had intercepted the delivery, according to a Sunday night IDF statement.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the difference is the polling in the region that suggests that if elections were held today, not only would Hamas retain control in the Strip, but they'd gain control of the West Bank from Fatah.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you thought about why that might have happened?

Could it have something to do with Israel funding and propping them up?

Is it related to the fact that the only Palestinian territory not being actively colonized is the one with the most Hamas presence?

When a child’s family is blown up by a missile, do you think it might give them a grudge against the group that launched them?

When Israel agrees to lift a blockade and doesn’t, even after a year of Hamas abiding the ceasefire, could that imply the Israeli government isn’t negotiating in good faith?

You can’t comprehensively talk about the “popularity” of an extremist group without analyzing the circumstances that gave rise to them. When we discuss the Nazi regime it’s very often brought up how the economic instability inflicted by WWI made the German people more receptive to Hitlers messaging.

Desperation breeds extremism so continuing to inflict desperate conditions is ensuring conflict will survive. Israel needs to pull out of the West Bank and allow Gaza control of their own utilities and trade.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Could it have something to do with Israel funding and propping them up?

Maybe, but Israel providing funds to the West Bank and Gaza is something that has been demanded by the international community for decades.

Israel needs to pull out of the West Bank and allow Gaza control of their own utilities and trade.

Gaza has control of it's utilities and trade. Israel only has control in the reality that they provide heavily discounted utilities to the strip as a form of aid. Gaza has received and continues to receive billions of dollars so that it can control it's own utilities and trade but; it chooses to spend that money on war fighting instead of self control and self reliance.

So if pulling out of Gaza in 2004 didn't lead to peace and self reliance by the strip and instead has led to a decay in Gaza's economic well being; why would they subject the much larger West Bank to the same problem?