AlejandroOct 26, 2023
Miriam Boosh
People think Hamas radicalises Palestinians. Lived experience of suffering, fear, loss, poverty and pain is what will make those kids hate Israel. Not Hamas
Oct 20, 2023 at 9:46amWeb
Show threadThePeyoteOct 20, 2023
@Miriamm Absolutely. Israel brutalizes the Palestinians, yet the West thinks it is the Israelites who are the victims here.
For instance, If they take my home, family, shelter, identity, and Land? Am I not justified in taking revenge on them?
Free Palestine. End Brutality. End War.
Show threadN3r0Oct 20, 2023
@SiyahGuraag @Miriamm 🤡
Show threadYoussef | يوسفOct 20, 2023
@Miriamm They need to understand that these experiences were there long before Hamas and will remain even when Hamas disappears. For years the Muslim brotherhood in Gaza were a purely religious group and at first focused only on spiritual and religious values, with no violence at all. The violence only emerged later and first took shape as a retaliation against various killings of civilians. Even if Hamas died something will emerge in its place if the cycle is not broken
Show threadtyilOct 20, 2023
@Miriamm Hamas is simply the result of decades of Israel bullying the Palestinians, while the Palestinians have no real means of getting out of the situation, and the rest of the world praising Israel for doing continuing their horrible atrocities. Even now, the (western) world is praising Israel for committing literal war crimes and violating human rights, as Israel continues its path to genocide.

You'd think a people that constantly reminds everyone about how bad it was that they were the target of a genocide would at least try to not commit a genocide themselves, yet here we are.
Show threadDeterioratedStuccoOct 20, 2023
@Miriamm
Bingo. Hamas acts to focus *existing* fear and anger.
Show threadGatekeeper..Oct 20, 2023
@Miriamm
Gaza is nothing but a huge prison yard ,and Israel is the wardon making it smaller every year.
Show threadsallie_curiousOct 20, 2023
@Miriamm Israel has kept Gaza without hope and in grinding poverty, so there is that.
Show threadCuttsOct 20, 2023
@Miriamm lotta people don't see the big poverty to terrorism pipeline. A couple of the Mumbai attackers were essentially sold to Lashkar E Taiba by their families.
Show threadKevOct 20, 2023
@Miriamm the Palestinians in Gaza were deliberately driven into the arms of Hamas by the brutality of the IDF
Show threadDan, some WH good nuz?Oct 20, 2023
@Miriamm Agreed: Hamas is not the cause, it is the symptom, the result of centuries of racial oppression.
Show threadJacopoOct 20, 2023

@Miriamm I totally agree. Israel made generations of Palestinians grow in a climate of oppression, injustices and violence. And, if violence is your every day experience, how can you imagine ways of responding with nonviolent actions?

This, of course, doesn't justify the horrors committed by Hams; it's rather an instance of how oppression is never the way to peace, but to further violence and horrors, and Israel's response doesn't break the cycle.

Show threadLola XerolaOct 20, 2023
@Miriamm I don't know if you missed it, but Israel the hardline government is not the same as the Israeli people who live there, large parts of which have been coming out in droves and demonstrating for months for their democracy and against Netanyahus right wing corrupt government.
Show threadLola XerolaOct 20, 2023
@Miriamm If Hamas cared for Palestinians, they wouldn't use their own people as human shields. They would team up with liberal forces against Israeli nationalists. Hamas are terrorists.
Disclaimer: I hate the settlement policy, I hate Netanyahu. Nothing can justify Hamas terrorism. Two things can be true at the same time.
Show threadPhoenixSerenityOct 20, 2023

@Miriamm These 2 doc films may help people understand that more:

From shortly after 2014.
https://www.netflix.com/us/title/81077863?s=a&trkid=13747225&trg=cp&vlang=en&clip=81116514

From 2002.
https://youtu.be/4kla_bxt2NE?si=jUNSwoPG9iXrTnjN

Show threadMW1CFNOct 21, 2023

@Miriamm Israel essentially expects to steal land and for others not to react. It seems those within Israel - which is not everyone, by any means - who support this ideology do not respect human life, do not learn from the past horrors, nor willing to honour agreements such as Oslo.

Whilst Hamas is a problem, Israel is not the innocent. Stealing people's land, goading them about it and treating them as dirt means they have a lot to learn and answer for.