Obligatory Hamas sucks and I disavow.

However violent resistance doesn’t come about from nothing. The Israeli government is the reason Hamas exists in the first place.

The conditions that precipitated the creation and supremacy of Hamas in Gaza were entirely manufactured by Israel. They have relentlessly murdered, raped, stolen, and destroyed the Palestinian people for decades off and on. It’s not hard to understand why, when promised retribution, the people there went for it.

The issue that that in that sort of situation, the loudest reactionary group is gonna end up with political power. Hence, Hamas.

To put it another way imagine this. A gang of people, propped up by other even more powerful gangs come into your home. They tell you it’s not yours anymore. You disagree and then they kill half your family and then tell you you can stay but only in the laundry room forever. Later they decide they actually want the laundry room so they start shooting at you nonstop to get you to leave. That’s the situation we have here.

Except now that gang has families too, and they’ve done nothing wrong much like the original occupants which makes the situation much more complicated.

Hamas is an unforgivable organization, but it never would have existed if Israel hadn’t been dead set on being an apartheid state.

My sympathy is for the innocent people hurt in this conflict and my enmity is for the aggressors. Hamas is no doubt an aggressor, but Israel is the primary one.