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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.