seems like the ‘safe’ public opinion is ‘we stand behind israel’ and the left opinion is palestinian support

i don’t live there i don’t have any particular interest or fascination with the region i don’t understand any of this pls don’t yell at me

  • TheProtagonist@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Pretty good summary, but I would object, that "Hamas" is something like a "government" in Gaza. It's a terrorist group that took control of the Gaza territory and it's people without ever having been elected by someone (in fact, they are suppressing any kind of election since they took over the power from the Palestinian authorities). They are also using the Gaza population as "living shields" against counter strikes to their terror attacks. Nowadays they also have international hostages, which would make a counter-offensive even more difficult.

    A possible - although very unlikely - solution to the conflict could be a de-radicaiisation on both sides and the Palestinians finally overthrowing the Hamas-regime and any other terrorist groups, because those are not fighting for Palestinian freedom, but for some crappy "Jihad" ideas and the destruction of Israel.

    Unfortunately this will never happen…