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I swapped the original article at the request of a mod to from a source deemed more reliable, but to avoid confusion when reading the comment section prior to this edit, here is the link to the original article. I chose the Relief Web source listed by some who commented. Cheers!

  • Orionza@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    The reason Hamas is in existence is because their peoples’ homes being taken and the Palestinians being killed constantly, for years. What would you do if your nation has lived in their land for ages, and a people came and took your family homeland and killed your family, and took neighborhoods and whole swaths of areas, then penned you up so that you couldn’t exit or enter your country without their permission…don’t you think you’d rise up with some other warriors to do something, anything? That’s what Hamas is. It is not a terrorist organization to go out and cause terror and trouble. It is the fighting representative of a beaten people.

    • butterflyattack@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      It is not a terrorist organization to go out and cause terror and trouble.

      Did you not notice the events that started this recent shit? Hamas certainly engages in terrorism, as does the IDF.

      • Cypher@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        There’s an old adage that one man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist.

        Allowing a label to dictate your view of the events is naive at best.

        • pascal@lemm.ee
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          11 months ago

          I always say “if you look at it from the current government point of view, Luke Skywalker was just a terrorist.”

        • djdadi@lemmy.world
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          Uh, it’s a nice saying, but it’s not really that true. There are some defining differences in terrorists and fighting a war