#how the hell r u talking abt 'israelis and palestinians will never have dignity and safety as long as hamas exists'

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Damn people are really on this site freely admitting their lack of critical thinking about the last 80-odd years of Palestinian and Zionist history huh. Do y'all think Palestinians had safety and dignity during the 30 years under Israeli occupation before Hamas was founded? No. It was and continues to be hell on earth, because of the violent actions of the settler-colonial state of Israel. Why the fuck do you think Hamas, al-Qassam, and similar orgs exist in the first place? They didn't spring up out of nowhere; they were formed by orphans and survivors of the decades of brutal, systemic violence inflicted on Palestinians by the Israeli occupation, in direct response to said violence.

And btw Palestinians have tried nonviolence; do none of you remember the Great March of Return several years ago? Israel murdered and maimed unarmed/peaceful Palestinian protestors. The gall of some of y'all to criticize the tactics colonized people use to defend themselves against an occupation... my god. As Arundhati Roy said, people have the right to resist annihilation.