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Forgive my ignorance, but I was always wondering why is it such a faux pau to show support to Palestine? From how I understand it, and that may be wrong, hence the question, the regular Palestinian people are occupied not only by Israel on the outside, but also by a terrorist group, HAMAS, at home. Which is basically a dictatorship, thats not afraid to openly use terror tactics. It's a lose-lose situation, and the only thing you can do is hope youre not going to be one of the 1/100 that dies to a random strike.
When there are innocent people in a situation like that, the least we can do is show them some support.
Or do majority of people in Palestine actually support HAMAS and the war? I feel like in missing something, because the backslash to people who show an ounce of support for Palestine is massive, and I don't really get why. I just want regular people who aren't terrorists to live at peace :(
Idk if the majority support Hamas specifically, but most Palestinians support resistance fighters, including Hamas, mostly because peaceful diplomacy with Israel has proven to be impossible.
Hamas only exists because peaceful diplomacy with Israel was successful, and leading to a secular Palestinian state and a two state solution.
Hamas has no power in the West Bank. Yet Israeli settlers are free to harass Palestinians and force them from their homes without consequence. If you think that’s a successful resolution to the conflict then you’re just willfully ignorant.
That's simply not true
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-12-08/ty-article/.premium/second-west-bank-settler-suspected-of-attacking-palestinians-to-be-held-without-trial/0000018c-49af-d6bd-a1ad-7bff81930000
Meanwhile Hamas literally has in their original charter that the reason they exist was to form an Islamic state, resist PA secularism, and fight a two state solution, because their goal was genocide of Israel.
Willful ignorance, as I said.
For others reading this, UN reports on the issue are easily accessible.
https://www.unocha.org/publications/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/other-mass-displacement-while-eyes-are-gaza-settlers-advance-west-bank-herders-enhe
Even Haaretz reports on settler violence.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-07-01/ty-article/.premium/settler-violence-in-the-west-bank-isnt-an-oversight-its-a-long-standing-policy/00000189-0abc-d572-af9b-0afffdd50000
You have to go out of your way to ignore the mass amount of evidence that show the Israeli government endorses and supports the forced eviction of Palestinians in the West Bank.
People break laws all the time. That doesnt mean the gov supports them.
You may enjoy learning about the actual nuance here
https://israelpolicyforum.org/west-bank-settlements-explained/
The two tracks appear unrelated: The state takes over land openly, using official methods sanctioned by legal advisors and judges, while the settlers, who are also interested in taking over land to further their agenda, initiate violence against Palestinians for their own reasons. Yet in truth, there is only one track: Settler violence against Palestinians is part of the strategy employed by Israel’s apartheid regime, which seeks to take over more and more West Bank land. The state fully supports and assists these acts of violence, and its agents sometimes participate in them directly. As such, settler violence is a form of government policy, aided and abetted by official state authorities with their active participation. The state legitimizes this reality in two complementary ways:
A. Legalizing land takeover
B. Legitimizing physical violence against Palestinians
See link for more info on the two ways
More willful ignorance of what are very well documented human rights abuses.
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2024-01-07/ty-article-opinion/arming-and-mobilizing-settlers-must-stop-to-end-violence-against-west-bank-palestinians/0000018c-e097-daf6-a5df-e7ff676c0000
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/settlers-killed-a-palestinian-teen-israeli-forces-didn-t-stop-it/ar-AA1mGJgV
https://theintercept.com/2021/07/15/israel-army-settlers-palestinians-killed/
You added that last part, you disingenuous tool.
They are against a two state solution, because it's clear that can never work. The government of Israel has made that abundantly clear. The only real solution is a multiethnic state that is shared by Christians, Jews, and Muslims.
A religious ethnostate smack dab in the middle of an already existing nation who claims the same holy site that you do. What could possibly go wrong?
What peaceful diplomacy that lead to what results? The Oslo peace process (which Netanyahu stopped, by the way) only came after the first intifada and that shit was not peaceful.