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Hamad said that Palestinians are the victims of the occupation, therefore no one should blame them for the events of October 7 or anything else, adding: "Everything we do is justified."

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[–] zephyreks@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

MEMRI is run by (former) Israeli intelligence and has been panned for being blatantly anti-Muslim: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/aug/12/worlddispatch.brianwhitaker

[–] zib@kbin.social 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And this is the big long-term problem with Israel's campaign of open genocide. They don't care how many innocents are killed as long as they wipe out Hamas, but in the process, they're inspiring more fanaticism in the region and fueling Hamas and other similar groups. Both Hamas and the Israeli government are terrorist organizations and they have a symbiotic relationship. The only real losers here are the innocent people caught in the middle.

[–] Dildade41@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Forgive my uninformed position here, but I'm sure they are aware that you can't defeat terrorism by murdering the ever living piss-fuck out of everyone. There must be another motivation for just killing everyone.

[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Taking their land. It's easier when there's no one to displace.

[–] chepox@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Is taking their land effective though? Wouldn't it just spawn cells within the newly acquired territory or other regions and continue?

So much hate can only spawn more hate.

[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Not in the formerly Palestinian territory, because all the Palestinians would be dead.

In other areas, such as nearby majority Muslim countries like Lebanon and Syria, yes, but then Israel could argue that they were being attacked as a nation, even more like 9/11 than the Oct 7th attack. They could use that as justification for strikes into those countries, since everyone let the US do it in Iraq and Afghanistan.

It just depends on how much they want to go for the military victory.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

That's the best part then you can steal more land! israel just keeps magically gaining land! The ever expanding lebensraum for the chosen people!

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Taking their land is how this all started

[–] nonailsleft@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago

Lots of nations were succesful by murdering everyone

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Staying ahead of corruption trials.

[–] stella@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago
[–] stella@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Israel was given to the Jews as an 'apology' for their treatment during WW2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-1ujiY_4C4

All Western nations agreed. All Arab nations declined.

Guess who got their way?

[–] fosforus@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I think founding Israel where it is was a huge geopolitical mistake, but I don't know how that knowledge helps at all today when that mistake is completely solidified.

[–] stella@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It helps so people remember why Palestinians are upset in the first place.

[–] thilo@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Thank you. Let us start working with the status quo. Israel right now is starting to realise that netanyahu is not the right guy and palrstinians/gazans need to accept, that they are mere cettle to hamas/abbas.

Also the arab world needs to work on this compromise with the palestinians and stop using them as propaganda tools.

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[–] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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[–] fosforus@sopuli.xyz -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Not sure. Here's another source https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/hamas-october-7-attack-repeat-israel-annihilated-ghazi-hamad/ -- but it basically links to the original source.

The guy is famous enough to have a Wikipedia page, that lists some of his sayings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghazi_Hamad

[–] Rawdogg@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Your username is the same chemical Israel has used against Palestinian civilians in blatant warcrimes

[–] fosforus@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I was going for Φωσφόρος aka light-bearer aka Lucifer actually with this username. Any similarities to horrible weapons of war are accidental.