[regarding the Hamas attack on October 7th]
History was made that day. Very proud of my people. Very, very proud.
Would love it if they would do it again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again.
They're not terrorists. I support every decision, and you know what? What they did was history. Very proud. History was made that day.
Shout-out to Hamas.
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What @Peacemonger373 said. While I don’t support Netanyahu’s policies, I also certainly don’t support blatant terrorist assholes like Hamas. My heart rather goes out to the civilians on both sides stuck in the middle.
And yes, OP, Hamas are most blatantly “terrorists”. They not only exclusively attacked, murdered, & tortured Israeli civilians, but they also keep using Palestinian civilians as meat shields against any inevitable reprisals. That is the very definition of “terrorist”.
Hamas O’Brien to Palestinian Winston: “Hamas seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others, we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness; only power, pure power. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution, one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?”
@Timjer #195770
I honestly don’t doubt they’re one of those types that say that decolonization requires violence and that colonized people can not come close in terms of rare violence that the colonizers have done or something to that effect… I didn’t like this frame of thinking long before the October 7th attack simply because of history and how former colonies that decolonized did a lot of flatout immoral and or outright racist things against entire groups of people that weren’t even involved in the system in the first place (and in some cases were another colonized peoples well), you know… things that fascists and ethnonationalists tend to do? Not to mention it seems like it actively tries to either downplay or even justify the atrocities of people that are considered colonized purely because the people they are committing horrific atrocities against where the colonizers.
@Peacemonger373 #195782
YES EXACTLY. How did you read my mind?
[rant]
And their "liberate oppressed people!" blood-and-soil breast-beating nationalism magically only applies to Palestinians and other Arabs and not to all the persecuted and genocide-victimized non-Arab indigenous minorities of the Middle East like Assyrians, Yezidis or Copts.
Heaven forbid they call Turkish people "colonizers" even though Armenians and Cappadocian Greeks had been living in the Anatolian Peninsula many centuries before the Turkish invasion from Central Asia. Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewish refugees native to the Middle East, however, are "colonizers" by merit of being non-Palestian, and they therefore aren't entitled to right-of-return for all the homes in Iraq and Yemen they had to flee or be genocidally slaughtered.
It's like how their theocratic counterparts on the far right don't care about the Uighurs in Xi Jinping's concentration camps and weren't calling for "jihad against Kampuchea" and "from the river to the sea, Champa will be free!" when Pol Pot took over Cambodia, committed genocide of the Cham people, and had the Khmer Rouge dynamite every single one of their mosques.
Confused?
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