You don’t seem to understand that Hamas can be both an indigenous resistance group retaliating against Israel and financed by Israel in its early years as a religious counterbalance to the secular PLO.
I understand that hamas is an islamist group that have an different ideology to plo. What you are ignoring is that despite that Hamas colaborate with non islamist groups. The problem is that your argument is used to deligetimize Hamas as a resistsnce group.
You also don’t seem to understand how it is beneficial to Israel to be fighting a group like Hamas over the PLO in how Israel presents this conflict to the media and the world. Israel can point at Hamas and say “look at these Muslim extremists, you can’t negotiate with them. Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East, looks what Hamas do to women and gays! This war is to do with religion, the Muslims always want to destroy the Jews.” This narrative was not possible against the PLO, if you can’t see how this situation favours Israel when selling the story to the Western audiences and how Israel much prefers it this way you are hopelessly myopic.
Yes, I don’t understand. Before hamas. Israel was talking about how the plo is a terrrorist group blowing up israelis . Nothing changed. They will always find an excuse and someone to blame .
But most people are not dumb. They undwrstand settler colonialism is one of the worst thing ever , worse than religious extremists. They know that torturing people, raping people, stealing their homes is bad. Rhey understand that an occupied population can’t be worse than an occupier
The narrative that hamas was created simply to oppose the “secular” plo don’t work because Hamas collaborate with non Islamists .
Israel can make mistakes. Israel did not expect Hamas to become as strong and didn’t expect a revolution in Iran, making Iran the main backer of all major resistance groups toward Israel. As a settler-colonial power, the only choice is for resistance groups to be more violent and aggressive, but without retaliating on innocent civilians. The peaceful way was already tried. The situation in the West Bank is another failure of the peaceful method.
Without Hamas, Israel wouldn’t have been forced to remove the settlers and rely on external occupation to avoid casualties.
Islamophobia is the hate of Islam, not only Islamists, so Islamophobic people would still not support Palestine when the PLO is also majoritarily Muslim. Having non-Muslim resistance groups as the most powerful groups will never happen.
Wrong. If no countries had recognized and built relations with Israel after the Nakba, the genocide would never have happened.
Before Hamas even existed, the Western countries’ populations were more supportive of Israel than Palestine. Imagine saying “I support Israel” just after the Nakba, where 850,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed, including 50,000 Christians.