The memes declaring "Gaza must be freed from Hamas" miss the critical point that after Netanyahu again broke the January ceasefire, Hamas themselves said they will relinquish all power in Gaza, release all hostages, and leave, on the condition that the Israeli military stop occupying Gaza—and Netanyahu rejected the offer because he refuses to give up Gaza.

This man is a war criminal committing genocide, and people are still focused on Hamas as if they control Israel's military.

@QasimRashid i had to look it up to refresh my memory after two months of media brainwashing, and indeed: https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-ready-to-free-all-hostages-at-once-for-end-to-war-palestinian-official/amp/
@clusterfcku @QasimRashid "While Hamas leaders will not agree to leave Gaza or disarm, the terror group is prepared to cede governing control of the Strip to independent Palestinian technocrats and agree to a years-long truce with Israel that includes “security arrangements,” the senior Palestinian official claimed."
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Seems to be in control of media pretty much worldwide too, given the worrying *complete* absence of any independent satellite images of Iran's attacks on Israel.
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@QasimRashid if the Iranian regime fall, the Israelites regime of Netanyahou will fall too after. No more enemy no more legitimiti
@QasimRashid You are correct but if they peer closely enough at Hamas they can then pretend they have not seen or understood the crimes committed by the Israeli government and military
@QasimRashid as per the meme going around “Iran is weeks away from a nuclear weapon”….. since 1995, it is about wiping out the current non-Zionist population of Gaza and replacing it with Zionist settlers.
@QasimRashid So no more turning EU funded water pipes into rockets nor shooting them at people they promised? And were shocked nobody trusted them I guess?

@ati1

Did you mistype “resisting occupation, ethnic cleansing and genocide”? You seem to have an autocorrect issue on your device.

Unless you’re a genocide supporting fascist coloniser of course :)
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@Mogleg @QasimRashid I just wanted to say both sides are in this killing for years. And if you see your fathers and brothers taking charity - funded water pipes out of the ground, turning them to rockets and shooting them at 10x stronger enemy... And doing similar things for years... Then you probably had enough time to realise they're not creating a sound safe environment for you. And maybe do sth about that? Not act later as if thunder struck you out of a clear sky for no reason?

@ati1
When one person in a relationship batter their spouse over a period of years they’re both in an abusive telationship. However, one person is the abuser and one is the abused. These are not the same. Do not try to equate the two.

Or are you suggesting that the Warsaw uprising had “bad people on both sides”? That they didn’t create a safe environment when resisting the Nazis?

There is only one part of the conflict that is occupying and genociding the other.
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@Mogleg @QasimRashid I wasn't talking about Warsaw uprising But if you ask then yes I think it had bad people on both sides or at least bad people on one, and stupid people on the other. It had absolutely no chances succeeding, allies had no chance to help them and they led to many unnecessary deaths among civilians in Warsaw and among 17-year old Liberator crews flying suicidal missions from Brindisi (south Italy) only to drop supplies on german positions from 100m in the night and thick smokes

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I guess you don’t get out of bed in the morning because you can’t guarantee success 😊

The Vietnamese were doomed to fail. Until they weren’t. The taliban was doomed until they regained control after 20 years of occupation. The indigenous people of South Africa were doomed to be subjugated by whites until they weren’t.

Resisting occupation is not futile.
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@Mogleg @QasimRashid Sorry but no. Bare handed Gaza strip vs Izrael backed by USA is not Afghanistan. Nor were hungry people of 1944 Warsaw vs 3rd Reich. I'm not fan of USA, and surely not Izrael but I'am alergic to this ideological mass suicides in 1 vs 1000 situations. And later glorification of such "romantic" ideas. And believe me we have lots and lots of this in our history. Warsaw uprising being one. It helps noone. It is just ineffective and stupid loss of lives/resources.
@ati1
How the oppressed choose to express their resistance is their business. I will only judge the oppressor.
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@Mogleg @QasimRashid See real problem is it's not "how the opressed choose to express their resistance" but rather "how 5%-10% of the opressed choose to express their resistance in most idiotic way, that affects MOSTLY that other 90%-95% nobody asked for an opinion" And it affects them in worst possible way. Warsaw uprising achieved nothing but city leveled to the ground and hardly anybody to opose soviet rule later cos all dissidents died trying to win 1vs100 fight with no bullets
@QasimRashid What Netanyahu never understands is if you bomb the crap out of a civilian population they will hate you forever. Even if the impossible goal of eliminating Hamas was achieved, the Israelis will never eliminate the hatred.

@iveyline @QasimRashid

Netanyahu understands this all too well. Getting neighboring civilian populations to hate Israel forever is part of his goal with these genocidal and war campaigns which he's waging all over the Middle East. It will create an endless supply of enemies both real and imagined that provide a convenient excuse to continue Israel's "forever wars", attempt to unite Israelis with a shared illusion of victimhood, and keep Netanyahu out of jail

Why Israel's Netanyahu encouraged suitcases of cash for Gaza

Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies say he was trying to prevent a humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip. Netanyahu's critics, citing his own words, say he was trying to buy — and thwart — peace.

The Week

@QasimRashid any sources on that surrender offer by #Hamas?

  • Cuz I sincerely doubt that...

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> because he refuses to give up Gaza

Not even that...Israel has never had any great interest in Gaza as real estate. Rather, Netanyahu refuses to give up on Hamas as a bogeyman and for its nuisance value, which is why he has been propping it up

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/

For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces

The premier's policy of treating the terror group as a partner, at the expense of Abbas and Palestinian statehood, has resulted in wounds that will take Israel years to heal from

The Times of Israel
@QasimRashid @pluralistic This is awful! Can you point me at sources?
@QasimRashid Based on the situation in Gaza for over a decade, and what has happened in the last two years, saying 'Gaza must be freed from Hamas' is like saying 'White lives matter' in response to Black Lives Matter.