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Re: by lern_too_spel on Thursday October 02, 2025 @07:24PM (#45456782)
> There Palestinians simply preferred hamas and terrorism over the PLO.... They need to commit to non violence between themselves before it's possible to commit to non violence with their enemies.

Hamas won 44% of the vote and then, as you noted, they murdered their political opposition. For this, everybody in Gaza should suffer both under a terrorist group running their lives and Israel bombing them?

Re: by machina_ex_deus on Thursday October 02, 2025 @07:52PM (#45457011)
Hamas cannot be allowed to continue to exist after 7th of October. The cost of getting rid of hamas is this war and the casualties it takes from both sides. This isn't punishment for voting to hamas, it's necessary war to eliminate hamas. Necessary because so long as hamas exists, there will be more 7th of October massacres. Only 30% of Germans voted for Hitler yet it took tens of millions of casualties to get rid of him. Should everyone in Germany suffer because of Hitler? That's wrong question because there was no other option than to get rid of Hitler, and there is no other option than to get rid of hamas.

I only wish that the Palestinians would view hamas the same way Germans view Hitler. Imagine if instead Germans cried about how the allies split their land instead of taking responsibility for allowing Hitler to rise.

Re: by wredcoll on Thursday October 02, 2025 @07:57PM (#45457053)
> That's wrong question because there was no other option than to get rid of Hitler, and there is no other option than to get rid of hamas.

I feel like there might, in fact, be other ways to do that.

Re: by ukblewis on Friday October 03, 2025 @03:40AM (#45460158)
How?
Re: by JumpCrisscross on Friday October 03, 2025 @07:31AM (#45461665)
> How?

Here's the thing, we don't have to answer that to allow more food into Gaza. There is a credible argument to be made that flooding Gaza with food actually reduces Hamas's ability to recruit by devaluing something they offer their fighters.

Re: by wredcoll on Saturday October 04, 2025 @05:37PM (#45476936)
Improve the living conditions of the average person so they're more interested in watching the next football game instead of taking vengeance for their murdered father.