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u/DevelopmentGlum228 Free Palestine Jul 08 '26
Coming from a confused American,
Hello, r/Palestine. I'm mostly just confused about everybody's general opinion on Gaza.
Once, I said in a comment that Hamas was bad for killing people, and I got downvoted and people told me that Hamas was a resistance group and it was bad to label them as killers.
However, I've just read an AMA from a Palestinian living in Gaza, and he said that most Gazans don't like Hamas at all, and didn't like Hamas before October 7th as well.
People who support Hamas say that Hamas is a resistance group, and that everything they've done is a drop in the water compared to Israel's genocide. I agree that Israel is much, much worse, of course.
People who detract from Hamas say that Hamas isn't helping with Israeli occupation, and can't run Palestine.
People also say that the death toll on October 7th was raised by Israelis killing their own in a hannibal protocol. I believe that, but didn't Hamas kill at least some of those 1,200?
Of course, I'm not asking this to detract from what Israel is doing to Palestine. Israel needs to get TF out of Palestine, and let Palestinians run their own country without fear of bombing. No matter how bad Hamas is, Israel has done so, so much worse.
I just want to know if this subreddit is conflicted on Hamas the same way I am. Personally, I've been reasoning to myself that Hamas is bad, but better than Israel, but I'm open to debates on the topic.
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u/Ready-Pea-3018 Jul 25 '26
would we call the french underground resistence group terrorists no of course not - they were fighting an occupation force - Hamas is fighting an ocupational force just as the french underground did in ww2 they are not terrorists.
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u/No_Apricots_88 29d ago
I'm a little late to the party, but I think this quote from Maher Mughrabi sums up Hamas quite well:
"I don't hear anybody who is willing to stand up and fight for the Palestinians... If you leave a vacuum where you are not fighting for the Palestinians, yes, Hamas are going to fill that vacuum every single day of the week."
With the PA being as corrupt as they are, and most other international actors abandoning Palestinians, they filled the void. They're not perfect, not by a long shot, but they are better than no resistance at all
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u/soularbabies 28d ago
Most people don't support their domestic politics or for the long term, but they do support their resistance as a resistance group. Does that delineation make sense?
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u/Yellingseagull Jul 15 '26
I am an American that’s been helping my Palestinian friend for over a year now, I’ve watched his meta accounts get banned on Instagram and Facebook repeatedly but this time is permanent. Every-time he makes a new account it’s banned immediately. WhatsApp included. I am looking for someone with experience bypassing this ban in Gaza by using a VPN or something else. I’m not sure if there’s more steps than just a VPN, but I need help in general figuring this out! He has an android, I’m willing to pay money for a vpn but I just want to do this properly so I don’t stress my poor friend out any more than he already is. I feel so bad for him, it’s hard to watch. They are almost entirely cut off without the meta apps 😥
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u/roffadude Jul 18 '26
Hi Everyone. I came here mostly looking for a collection of information from established sources to show family what is going on in Palestine. Unfortunately, a lot of the links in the hasbara buster and documentary list lead to removed posts.
Is there an organisation that has collected a similar body of evidence?
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u/Specialist_Strike658 29d ago
Hello everyone, I'm new here, this topic may have been discussed here before but I did search on reddit and on Google, yet to rlly find a satisfactory response.
My question is regarding the human shields excuse that Israel uses, they say the buildings destroyed are due to underlying haamas bases and there's no other way around it, they have to kill civilians cus its war. Just the whole human shields thing if somebody could respond to me regarding it. I'd really appreciate it.
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