Ghazi Hamad, of terror group's politburo, hails the major assault in which civilians were systematically murdered, saying 'there will be a second, a third, a fourth'
That isn’t what a tankie is at all. A tankie is someone who defends authoritarian governments because the governments are “left wing” or rivals of the US. Having a left wing economic policy isn’t even close. Hell you can be a Communist and still not be a tankie.
More like they get accused of doing so even though their comment didn’t mention Hamas and they were talking about Palestinian rights, and somewhere someone pops up telling them they sympathize with Hamas.
I made the mistake of commenting on this post where people clearly think that the Hamas are the good guys and have every right to do what they do. Apologies for linking to it.
I still don’t understand what’s so hard about condemning antisemitism and giving them the boot. You can’t truly be left wing, at least socially, if you aren’t making it clear bigots aren’t welcome.
We’ve come full circle now too – they’ve mixed up criticism of Israel and antisemitism.
Right now it’s like a 6yo child that punches you as hard as they can in the balls, and you respond by beating the fuck out of them with a tire iron. The fact that you could straight-up murder the child by shooting them in the fucking face doesn’t mean that breaking every bone in their hands along with both legs to “teach them a lesson” would be appropriate or proportionate.
For sure, but that wasn’t really my point, which was intentions and goals. Hamas is not a “good guy” since they will take every chance of murdering and kidnapping israeli citizens if it’s by high-precision missiles or fucking gliders straight out of a comic book, and israelis aren’t the “good guys” for barraging palestinian civvies while taking tiktoks.
I feel vile for all this good guys bad guys rhetoric ffs gotta take a showa
Oh, I’m not saying that Hamas is good guys. They’re not. They’re terrorists.
But by the scope and scale, by the amount of force that they’re able to bring to bear, and by the sheer number of non-combatants being killed, the IDF is far, far worse. Hamas targeted civilians on purpose, the IDF is simply indiscriminate.
The Allied forces utilized the tactics of total-war during WWII, with things like the firebombing of Dresden, or Tokyo. The idea was to break the will of the people to fight. Well, spoiler: it doesn’t work. When you kill someone’s whole family, their friends, blow up their house and community, they end up having an even stronger desire to fight back. Just like the bombings of London by Germany increased the resolve of Britons, so did the indiscriminate massacre of civilians by the Allies increase the resolve of the Germans.
The actions of the IDF are going to give Hamas it’s next generation of fighters, people willing to die to kill Israel.
who still thinks hamas are the good guys?
Only tankies. Literally no one out here with a braincell is defending Hamas.
They support Hamas? I’m not voting for them ever again. Obama was a tankie.
That isn’t what a tankie is at all. A tankie is someone who defends authoritarian governments because the governments are “left wing” or rivals of the US. Having a left wing economic policy isn’t even close. Hell you can be a Communist and still not be a tankie.
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Like the 90% of lemmy are terrorists apologizers at this point
More like they get accused of doing so even though their comment didn’t mention Hamas and they were talking about Palestinian rights, and somewhere someone pops up telling them they sympathize with Hamas.
Yeah it’s pretty much this almost every time
Lemmy users: why has Israel intentionally killed 3500+ children in such a short time?
People that support/ignore genocide like Shardikprime: why do you support Hamas?
I made the mistake of commenting on this post where people clearly think that the Hamas are the good guys and have every right to do what they do. Apologies for linking to it.
This is an 100 year conflict, all the good guys are dead.
Why do people feel this need to be good/bad. Everybody knows by now how complex is the middle east
Literally supporting terrorists and apologize for them is bad
you shouldn’t do that then
They most certainly are not.
Piece of shit, pouring oil onto fire while the civilians are getting slaughtered at this point on both sides. If there is hell, this one should burn.
Edit: I’ve never seen anyone defend Hamas, only civilian Palestinians. Just to make that clear distinction.
Bro you merely have to look at this thread and the weekly world news/news threads to see leftists terrorist apologizers
That’s why I’m trying to limit my time here, but I also just want to follow the news and see some cat pics.
Best thing to do is condemn terrorist Hamas on the one side and Netanyahu/IDF/extremist settlers that harass West bank palestinians on the other side.
And pray for the Jewish and Palestinian civilians. Because they are the ones suffering.
Antisemitic people, if I had to make a guess
Mostly leftists
I still don’t understand what’s so hard about condemning antisemitism and giving them the boot. You can’t truly be left wing, at least socially, if you aren’t making it clear bigots aren’t welcome.
We’ve come full circle now too – they’ve mixed up criticism of Israel and antisemitism.
Hamas killed 1400 civilians.
The IDF has killed about 9500 civilians so far.
I dunno, I think that Hamas may not be the good guys, but they’re definitely the less bad guys.
Give hamas same weaponry and intel as profoundly shit as IDF and israel might as well be one big crater
Okay, but they don’t. And they likely never will.
Right now it’s like a 6yo child that punches you as hard as they can in the balls, and you respond by beating the fuck out of them with a tire iron. The fact that you could straight-up murder the child by shooting them in the fucking face doesn’t mean that breaking every bone in their hands along with both legs to “teach them a lesson” would be appropriate or proportionate.
For sure, but that wasn’t really my point, which was intentions and goals. Hamas is not a “good guy” since they will take every chance of murdering and kidnapping israeli citizens if it’s by high-precision missiles or fucking gliders straight out of a comic book, and israelis aren’t the “good guys” for barraging palestinian civvies while taking tiktoks.
I feel vile for all this good guys bad guys rhetoric ffs gotta take a showa
Israel did knowingly bomb a refugee camp. Twice. Kind of hard to defend that behavior as “self defense”.
Replying to a wrong comment perhaps?
Oh, I’m not saying that Hamas is good guys. They’re not. They’re terrorists.
But by the scope and scale, by the amount of force that they’re able to bring to bear, and by the sheer number of non-combatants being killed, the IDF is far, far worse. Hamas targeted civilians on purpose, the IDF is simply indiscriminate.
The Allied forces utilized the tactics of total-war during WWII, with things like the firebombing of Dresden, or Tokyo. The idea was to break the will of the people to fight. Well, spoiler: it doesn’t work. When you kill someone’s whole family, their friends, blow up their house and community, they end up having an even stronger desire to fight back. Just like the bombings of London by Germany increased the resolve of Britons, so did the indiscriminate massacre of civilians by the Allies increase the resolve of the Germans.
The actions of the IDF are going to give Hamas it’s next generation of fighters, people willing to die to kill Israel.
I think the former is way worse. Besides, there’s no point in debating this. They’re both horrible. Agreed? Then let’s move on.