"Educational assistance", "religious extremism", "Multi-faceted". Your posts fascinate me from a critical discourse analysis perspective, because you use all the correct mechanisms to diminish responsibility on Hamas' side but then highlight and emphasize Israel's contribution as the initiate for all Hamas' responses. I have to smile seeing you bend and obfuscate to absolve Hamas of the same crimes you want people to abandon Israel for.
What part of terrorism did I 'Bend' or 'obfuscate' to absolve Hamas? I simply stated that they are actively or have been involved in terrorism, as well as social services, and Palestinian resistance. In terms of a governing body, they have left most of that to other political groups lately. Israel is also multi-faceted, in that it is a state-sponsor of terrorism, used terrorism to create it's state, as well as provide democracy for Jews and a controlled minority of Arabs and Christians. We can go over the vast array of social services as well, but we all know that Israel is a recognized state which provides all the benefits of economic and military alliances the West has to offer. This allows it to continue it's ethnic cleansing under the guise of legitimate statehood.
Also...is "educational assistance" a euphemism?
Well Hamas did provide a wide array of social services. Food subsidies, educational help, and aid to refugees. After being sanctioned and isolated for their adamant political view of Israel's total destruction, the people of Gaza have been getting more aid from Fatah and Hamas seems to have relinquished most governing and politics to other political parties. They have since gone 'back to their roots' as a resistance movement, and unfortunately, aligned with Al Qaeda. It would be the same as calling all segments of the Iranian government (from the lowest street cleaner to Iran's Jewish population) terrorist simply because the Ayotollah regime supports Hezbollah. As we know, USA has a long history of covertly supporting what would be called terrorists: Mujahideen in Afghanistan, Baluchi and Arab separatists in Iran, death squads in Latin America [ex. Guatemala], and the IDF in Israel. I'd be hard pressed to find any American who would openly state they are terrorists because they voted in Reagan during the Cold War, or Bush during the illegal invasion of Iraq.
It's hilarious because for Hamas you're using all these measured and moderate terms like "assistance" and "authority" to lend your view lexical legitimacy, but when it comes to Israel you find every extreme adjective you can to incite reaction and reflexive support to what you say.
I've never hidden my bias, (towards the Palestinians), but don't assume it is blanketed support for Hamas, which has an active alliance with Al-Qaeda. In terms of sheer numbers of civilians killed, terrorism of civilians, and efficacy of destroying the life of everyday citizens, and ethnic cleansing, the Israeli military is far more effective, and receives far less criticism from the West.
I also find it interesting you don't make a distinction between Likud and Israel. You're very quick to make that distinction between Hamas and the Palestinians, but when it comes to anything being perpetrated against Palestinians suddenly it's an all-encompassing "Israel" doing it.
Likud is the elected government. There is a coalition with a few other groups (but ultimately dominated by Zionist groups who believe in Settlement expansion, and with that, an extension of terrorism, intimidation, land appropriation, and ethnic cleansing). Only one of the coalition groups has a platform built on direct talks with Palestinians.
So who is terrorizing the Palestinians more than the recognized state of Israel? If you can't point the fingers at the current mostly Pro-Settlement Likud administration either, who's left? Would you say the Palestinians are wholly to blame for every injustice done to them since Zionists started overpopulating and ethnically cleansing them?
When there are crimes against Israelis you're quick to inform people it's a small contingent that's responsible, but somehow when Palestinians are on the receiving end of criminal behavior it's all of Israel that's working the cogs of this machine?
I simply referred to the incident that apparently sparked Israel to punish Hamas, murder thousands of civilians and destroy an entire city. It was the death of 3 boys by a splinter group that does not fall under Hamas's authority.
Another language indicator about your actual beliefs. You're using concepts like "massacres", "assassinations", "truck bombs" and "racism" and "memorialization of war criminals" (Is praising suicide bombing martyrs not similar?
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My bias is simply with the Palestinians being ethnically cleansed. To answer your question if the crimes above being memorialized is similar, yes, but with one clear exception. When Israel memorializes (even elects them to become Prime Ministers) terrorists who blow up buildings or are accused of crimes against humanity, they are being funded, defended, and supported by the United States and the West. If anybody complains about Israeli terror, they are labeled as an Anti-Semite (which is ridiculous because Palestinians are just as much Semitic as Jews), or worse yet, a supporter of "terrorism."
I doubt you care much about this conflict or a solution or the lives of civilians quite as much as you care about creating a whirlwind of condemnation for Israel like it would solve anything.
You're right on a few things here. I'm not Palestinian or Israeli, and I don't care as much as a Palestinian or an Israeli because ultimately, I'm not living in that colonial dystopia. I am a student of world history though, and from my perspective, anybody who defends Israel, like the Apartheid regime in South Africa, and the Colonial murderers of the past, will be on the wrong side of it when this conflict comes to an end. There is a way out of this conflict, but it will be a bitter pill to swallow for all the parties. If you have read my comments in the past few years in this topic (
Click Here to see my stance on the earlier thread a few years ago), you will see that I have stated I would not mind at all if Israel takes all of the Palestinian territories with the exception that the Palestinians have a right to return to their homeland. That solution would be a US-European effort to enforce a pluralistic society and allow back the millions of Palestinian refugees who are knocking on the doors of Israel to return home. Israel wants other Arab countries to absorb them to permanently cleanse them from Israeli soil. These people have just as much, if not MORE right to return than Zionists who stole their land and destroyed their heritage. If a segment of these helpless people were not allowed to return to their rightful homes, then they need to be given sanctuary in the US, Europe, and Arab countries that have prolonged this conflict for the past 60 years.
I liked how you included the Aftonbladet story in there as some added sensationalist spice, when it's a story originating from well known anti-Israeli exponents. I also like how you erased the fact that the accusations extended to Israeli citizens and IDF soldiers having their organs taken as well as Palestinians. But it wouldn't get the traction you're seeking unless you make it sound like Israeli doctors are mass-harvesting organs from only Palestinians, would it?
Doesn't negate the fact that they were taking human organs from Palestinians. Sorry I didn't post every fact for you to digest. Using your flawed argument of maligned intent,
why didn't you condemn it?
