Re:The destruction of Gaza's internet is complete
by peyton on Saturday October 28, 2023 @12:33AM
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We’re talking about a “political movement” elected on an anti-corruption platform that dismantled elections and siphons every dollar of economic aid it can. Let’s call it what it is: a military organization willing to violate international law in exchange for cash. Political movements don’t launch coordinated air, land, and sea attacks or build extensive tunnel networks. As with their anti-corruption campaign, their demonstrated strategic imperative is transparently not in service of the stated political objective.
Re:The destruction of Gaza's internet is complete
by invalidname on Saturday October 28, 2023 @12:15AM
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> Terrorism is - historically and in the present - almost always a symptom of a political movement that has radicalized possibly as an outgrowth of a population under occupation or backed into a corner.
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> That's why to me it is a symptom.
A symptom would be a fight for freedom. The Hamas is a symptom of religious extremism first and foremost. The PLOs terrorist period is indeed a symptom of Israels bad policies.
That's why to me it is a symptom.
As for the rest, we are mostly in agreement, I think the latter bit is the key but for that Israel would have to back off of certain policies and they would have to be able to accept that some fragment of Hamas / and or terrorist factions funded by other countries around it will cause some degree of damage. There is some analogy with 'force protection' here, if you focus too much on protecting your own side at the expense of your status with respect to human rights on the side of your opponent you more or less automatically breed terrorists.
Leaving hundreds of thousands of youths with the image of an enemy next door has to result in a terrorist organization. More so if you occasionally kill a bunch of them and/or remove their kinsfolk from land that they've lived on their whole lives.