Hamas has been receiving Israeli support since the late 80s when it was founded.
I just checked and yeah that’s true fair enough.
What? Speeding up the genocide by being the Israeli right’s perfect foil in this grotesque kayfabe?
Any effective (or not so effective) act of resistance was going to be met with massive Israeli reprisal, so the only way to not be a foil for the Israeli right is to literally do nothing. See: Fatah.
Is that progress for the Palestinian cause?
If somehow Gaza survives this it’ll be very much a hotly debated “at what cost” kind of deal, because October 7th did start the countdown for the end of Israel’s current existence, but at present no, because of course there need to be Palestinians before there’s a Palestinian cause. That said that’s not my point; I was responding to the idea that Hamas has been just a parasite passively profiting off Palestinians’ suffering when in real life they’ve been an active contributer to the Palestinian cause while also profiting off Palestinians’ suffering. Whether you like their contribution or not (prior to October 7th anyway) is one thing, but they are and were an active resistance organization without which prospects for peace in Palestine would be completely different. I mean there probably wouldn’t be a genocide either, but again that’s beside the point.
Hamas has been receiving Israeli support since the late 80s when it was founded.
What? Speeding up the genocide by being the Israeli right’s perfect foil in this grotesque kayfabe?
… Gaza is on the verge of total genocide, and the West Bank is looking to be next. Is that progress for the Palestinian cause?
I just checked and yeah that’s true fair enough.
Any effective (or not so effective) act of resistance was going to be met with massive Israeli reprisal, so the only way to not be a foil for the Israeli right is to literally do nothing. See: Fatah.
If somehow Gaza survives this it’ll be very much a hotly debated “at what cost” kind of deal, because October 7th did start the countdown for the end of Israel’s current existence, but at present no, because of course there need to be Palestinians before there’s a Palestinian cause. That said that’s not my point; I was responding to the idea that Hamas has been just a parasite passively profiting off Palestinians’ suffering when in real life they’ve been an active contributer to the Palestinian cause while also profiting off Palestinians’ suffering. Whether you like their contribution or not (prior to October 7th anyway) is one thing, but they are and were an active resistance organization without which prospects for peace in Palestine would be completely different. I mean there probably wouldn’t be a genocide either, but again that’s beside the point.
Ultimately and unfortunately Hamas has enabled the Israeli goal of splitting the West Bank and Gaza in the concept of Palestine.
The West Bank may soon be the only place of Palestine left, neither because of nor in spite of Hamas.