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Hachemi Hadjoudj's avatar

What a magnificent article! Which, among an abundant literature, single-handedly and exhaustively summarizes the roots, development and projections of the dramatic events we are witnessing! Many thanks to the author for this summary of History, its moral rigor and its clarity!…

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Sol Sön's avatar

Here I re post a comment I used to reply to a comment deleted by a troll which goes by the alias of “michigan.rob”, which attacked me for using the term Genocidal war, called all Hamas fighters terrorists and than blocked himself making the. Moments and my reply apparently visible to others but not me.

Anyhow, I feel I should not let my long replay to his comment go to waist so here it is.

Yes calling a Genocide “war” is incorrect, but this is what it is.

A genocidal army armed with the most devastating weapons of mass destruction on one side, and partisans and freedom fighters armed with stones and home made fire weapons and exploding devices made from unexploded ordinances on the other, exchanging blows.

Obviously the blows from the one side cannot be compared to the ones inflicted by the other, nevertheless, beside the Genocide unleashed on the innocent population, war of some kind is definitely taking place.

One more consideration, if we want to use the term Genocide in the correct way, than we should make it clear that Genocide in Palestine is taking place not from October the seventh, but from 1948 as the term includes among other, the forceful transfer of a population.

Regarding Hamas being a terrorist group, I think that like everything in life, it would be incorrect to say that they are all one bunch or that they are all terrorists.

Hamas was elected by the people of Gaza which were fed up with the Fatah and with being sold out by the PLO and its later PA.

I agree to the fact that members of Hamas had been for decades used as a tool for Genocide and that some of them have been working for zionists ever since the establishment of their group , but for what I know, things had drastically changed after 2011, time in which after the fall of Mubarak, and the closing down of the tunnels, a cleanup of its institution took place.

I can also tell you that Hamas was said to be doing a better job in protecting the people of Gaza, than the Fatah the PLO or the PA ever did with the Palestinians living in the rest of Palestine.

This was confirmed to me by peace activists and humanitarian workers which had been to Gaza before and after Hamas.

In their words, Hamas had transformed Gaza into a beautiful place with roads, universities, hospitals, schools sanitation, DRINKING WATER, and social services which were never existing before them.

Surly the group had been infiltrated from its start, but so did every other group of armed partisans ever since 1948, or perhaps from even before then.

Until October the seventh 2023, israel, the US, the UK,and the EU, were said to have has many as 2000 spies in Gaza.

This spies are at large comprised of Palestinian people which are blackmailed, threaten and forced to spy on their own people, this in turn, makes nearly every association or group in Gaza and indeed in Palestine for many aspects, a tool in the hands of the zionists. hence calling the entire Palestinian resistance Hamas or calling all of Hamas fighter terrorists, in the end would be wrong.

One more consideration which I think you should make, is that after close to 18months of Genocide, no one of the Hamas fighter which worked for Israel is likely to be left in Gaza.

Surly many new israeli spies may have tried to infiltrate the resistance and succeeded, but once again, after almost one and half year fighting, I don’t think that the Palestinian which affiliate themselves with Hamas, well knowing what we know “plus some”, would so easily allow spies or “the real terrorists” from join their ranks.

One thing is for sure, only the Palestinians can decide who they want to have as representatives, and only they, will in the end, tell us about facts which till now, we can only assume or speculate on.

Anyhow thank you again for your support for the Palestinian cause.”

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