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myscreenname said..psychojoe said..
Hamas is a democratically elected party. Elected with policys like, 'we'll get them Jews'. Not everybody voted for them. Some of them are innocent.
More accurately 90% of them are innocent and didn't vote for Hamas.
In January 2006 the Palestinian territories held their last parliamentary elections.
Hamas won by a slim majority (44% to 41%) to the Fatah party - who recognize Israel's right to exist and support negotiations for a two-state solution.
As neither Hamas or Fatah wanted to share power, fighting broke out between the two groups. Hamas began murdering Fatah members and drove the remaining members to the West Bank. Hamas then took total control of the Gaza Strip.
Surprise surprise, Hamas' rule of Gaza is not what Palestinians voted for back in 2006. The median age of Gazans is 18, half of the Gazan population weren't even born when the election took place.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gaza_(2007)
www.npr.org/2023/10/18/1206897328/half-of-gazas-population-is-under-18-heres-what-that-means-for-the-conflict So it sounds to me like there has been 18 years of brutal dictatorship by Hamas against the will of the people? Certainly thier funnelling of massive amounts of aid money into war against Isreal instead of helping the people suggests so.
If this is true why hasn't the UN condemned this and intervened knowing full well the goal of Hamas was outright destruction of and war with Isreal and also having no qualms with how many of its own civilians were killed in the process. Why is the UN not entering this war against Hamas to liberate the people of Palestine?
The UN won't even label Hamas a terrorist organisation, even after the massacre of 1500 civilians, let alone thier stated objectives to kill all Jewish people. The UN didn't even condemn Hamas after the October massacre, just expressed concern. Yet Isreal's response to defend themselves was condemned....
Either Hamas is a legitimate authority of Palestine and therefore consequences of its actions fall on all of Palestine, or it is not and the international community should be helping to remove it and liberate Palestine from terrorists.
Either Hamas is condemned and removed by the international community or they simply stand aside and let Isreal remove them by any means possible. In fact what is happening is the international community is aiding Hamas financially. Make no mistake the UN and the international community has just as much blood on thier hands by refusing to address the cause of the issue as Isreal does in defending itself.