Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Why do people villainize Hamas just for trying to defend themselves?

(4) Quora:  "Stop thinking of Hamas as a plucky band of freedom fighters taking on an evil empire.

"In reality, Hamas are radical Islamists — extremely violent, misogynistic, fascistic, fanatically antisemitic, and obsessed with war.

 . . ."When Hamas talk about “liberating Palestine”, they don’t mean ending Israel’s occupation of the West Bank or its blockade of the Gaza Strip. They mean the genocidal elimination of Jews in Israel (“Palestine”) and the replacement of Israel itself with a medieval Islamic theocracy.

"Politically, Hamas are essentially Muslim supremacists, or Arab Nazis. Their primary goal is a genocide of Israeli Jews.

"They even have an equivalent to the Hitler Youth Movement. They hold summer camps for children where they literally learn how to hate and how to kill Jews. This youngster was interviewed at one such camp:

"Hamas’s mission, backed by Iran, is to destroy Israel and replace it with an Islamic state. But like other Islamist regimes, they also have zero tolerance for “Western” ideas like liberty, democracy, free speech, the right to protest, women’s rights, etc. catching on within their own population. Gazan citizens are suffering more under Hamas than they ever did under Israeli occupation. If they question Hamas’s policies, men will come to break their arms and legs. Those who oppose the cause of Jew-genocide are likely to be executed in public.

"People don’t “villianize” Hamas. Hamas fighters are no different from those al-Qaeda terrorists who flew planes full of passengers into American buildings, or any of the other Islamists responsible for countless atrocities in Russia (Moscow theatre, Beslan school), the UK (London Underground, Ariana Grande concert), France, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

"Too many people imagine that Hamas are something like the cool rebel heroes in Star Wars. But a much more accurate analogy would be the Borg in Star Trek, a horde of dehumanised drones out to destroy and/or ‘assimilate’ all other races into their hive mind. The difference, though, is that this is no movie; Hamas are far worse than any villain Hollywood could imagine."

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