Posted on 04/27/2024 9:39:28 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
More than six months into the war in Gaza and with dimming hopes for a cease-fire deal, Palestinians there are growing more critical of Hamas, which some of them blame for the months-long conflict that has destroyed the territory — and their lives.
The war has displaced most of the Gaza Strip’s population, killed tens of thousands of people and pushed the enclave toward famine, its infrastructure in ruins. The Israeli military waged a punishing campaign to eliminate Hamas after the group, which ruled Gaza for 17 years, attacked Israel on Oct. 7, killing an estimated 1,200 people and abducting more than 250.
But while the majority of Palestinians in Gaza blame Israel for their suffering, according to polling conducted in March, they also appear to be turning their ire toward the militants. In interviews with more than a dozen residents of Gaza, people said they resent Hamas for the attacks in Israel and — war-weary and desperate to fulfill their basic needs — just want to see peace as soon as possible.
If Hamas wanted to start a war, “they should have secured people first — secured a place of refuge for them, not thrown them into suffering that no one can bear,” said Salma El-Qadomi, 33, a freelance journalist who has been displaced 11 times since the conflict started.
Palestinians want leaders “who won’t drag people into a war like this,” she said. “Almost everyone around me shares the same thoughts: We want this waterfall of blood to stop. Seventeen years of destruction and wars are enough.”
Hamas, an Islamist political and military movement, was founded in 1987 during the first Palestinian uprising. It staged some of the deadliest attacks on Israeli civilians and later won Palestinian legislative elections.
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That's a BS street line, and a BS excuse. If you're living on the same street as the criminals that are destroying your neighborhood, and you pretend it's not happening, you are no better than the criminals victimizing your neighbors. You should be required to report everything you know to the police. When you remain silent, you are condoning the behavior, allowing more people to be victimized. Same thing with those Hollywood bimbos who kept silent when sexually assaulted by a move producer, just so they could keep their movie role. They never thought about the next woman that would be assaulted in the same manner. Then they have the nerve to come out 20 years after the fact to whine about it.
In Medieval times, if people in a village knew a crime had occurred, and knew who the criminal was, yet remained silent, the whole village was fined by the King. If somebody in the village discovered a body, and failed to report it to the authorities, they were held accountable. There were plenty of snitches back then that would turn you in. People that live in crime-ridden neighborhoods should be fined for not cooperating with the police. Maybe they'd finally decide to police their own neighborhoods. Even convicts in prison police their own cell blocks and dorms. When a troublesome inmate brings unwanted surveillance from the uniformed staff down on their block or dorm, the other inmates will confront the troublemaker, and take care of business. I know that for a fact, because I worked in uniform in NY State's prisons for 25 years, and saw it happen many times.
with dimming hopes for a cease-fire dealIf the Palestinians were to kill or capture the remaining members of Hamas, secure the surviving hostages, the approach the Israelis offering to release the hostages and turn over Hamas, I'm pretty sure they'd get a cease-fire pretty quickly.
“which some of them blame for the months-long conflict that has destroyed the territory — and their lives. “
Some? I’ll bet they are in the silent minority.
I know that was meant as sarcasm, but to alter a quote a bit, you can vote your way into a dictatorial regime, but you’ll have to fight your way out.
Well DUH! .... ya think they’re realizing who supported Hamas being in Gaza for all these years???
GINOs
Sorry, not gonna happen. Hamas uses electronic voting machines, mass mail-in ballots, and ballot harvesting from Hamas operatives.
Everyone has a breaking point.
Riiiiiight. They are just angry that Hamas didn’t kill all the Jews.
Exactly; and no criticism of Oct. 7.
“Yeah, right. Not buying it.”
Exactly!
The Compost searches for one person for the quote they want, and voila the Palestinians hate Hamas!
“In war-battered Gaza, residents grow angry with Hamas”
You know, maybe you Israeli hating Palistinians shouldn’t have gone along with Hamas. I hope all you so called Palis suffer big time.
I’m sure there will be as many “Good Gazans” as there were “Good Germans” after the war.
Ha, good point!
The WP screwed up. They said Hamas ran Gaza. The principal narrative is “Hamas and Gaza are separate so why should Gaza suffer for what Hamas did?”.
Gen Z writers are at the WaPo. So I see them being honest in their reporting sometimes. But that’s because they did not know that they were supposed to keep up with their propaganda.
Normally, before a dump is cleaned up, you remove the people. Plenty of land in surrounding Arab countries to take them in, and use their billions of petrol dollars to clean up the dump and make it a paradise. But that will never happen. Residents of dumps are like cockroaches. Squash them, kill them, vaporize them, whatever it takes so the dump won't spread.
what’s of possible significance is that this story was printed in the far leftist WashPost
it just might be a signal for the commie/nazi/leftist moles, spies, and secret agents in WashDC... and all of their Useful Idiots on college campuses.....that Der Leader(s) have finally recognized that it is long past time to throw the Fakestinian terrorist murderer gangsters Under The Camel
maybe, we can hope anyway
THEY WERE GLEEFUL AND THEY AND THEIR MOMS LAUGHED WITH PLEASURE.
Of course there are exceptions, but many of the people in Gaza share the psychopathy of their sons in Hamas.
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