It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
originally posted by: BrucellaOrchitis
originally posted by: asabuvsobelow
Both sides are wrong , but Hamas did start this no matter if you want to think Israel knew it was coming or not . Hamas always new Israel would over react to any attack so why attack in the first place if only to run to the MSM crying for help.
Perhaps for that very reason. To get people to pay attention because they were getting treated like #, killed even and they had tried, or thought they had, all other avenues. As an elected authority HAMAS I presume has some responsibility to at least try and honour whatever promises they made to get elected, getting the world to take notice is perhaps one of them.
It's an atrocious situation but the world is full of atrocious situations and I strongly suspect that this one, like the war in Ukraine, is only of any MSM interest because it involves white people, on one side at least in this instance. Brown and black women and children getting raped and murdered seldom ever makes headline news and yet it happens multiple times daily in some places.
originally posted by: 19Bones79
a reply to: asabuvsobelow
but Hamas did start this
That's like believing Russia invaded Ukraine for no reason at all.
originally posted by: 19Bones79
a reply to: asabuvsobelow
As an oppressed people who since 1948 have been slaughtered en masse since the Jews arrived?
Absolutely.
Targeting innocent civilians in the process?
No. That makes them no better than Israel and the US.
originally posted by: kwaka
Israel has never supported a two state solution, ...
In 1988, Hamas published its charter, calling for the destruction of Israel and the establishment of an Islamic society in historic Palestine. In what observers called an attempt to moderate its image, Hamas presented a new document [PDF] in 2017 that accepted an interim Palestinian state along the “Green Line” border established before the Six-Day War but that still refused to recognize Israel.
originally posted by: asabuvsobelow
Hamas had to honor promises ? Oh they had to do something out of desperation ??? .
Strong delusion mate you are extremely deluded .
originally posted by: asabuvsobelow
And FYI Jewish people may appear white but they are most certainly not white . Perhaps read a book or two or 100 .
originally posted by: BrucellaOrchitis
I don't know who is allowed to vote in Palestine and I don't know how many proportionate to the overall population actually did or did not vote for HAMAS.
originally posted by: FlyersFan
originally posted by: BrucellaOrchitis
Do you know what the minimum voting age is?
18. Reuters
originally posted by: BrucellaOrchitis
Which is/was about 50 % of the population, right?
originally posted by: BrucellaOrchitis
So by your rule of law, you go into someone else's country # things up, rape and murder noncombatants, women and children, then your children are fair game?
originally posted by: BrucellaOrchitis
That perhaps you can only a push a people so far before it hits out at the source of it's oppression?
originally posted by: FlyersFan
Mass murder and mass rape, frying babies in ovens, cutting open pregnant women and killing unborn children, burning whole families alive in their homes ... that's not 'freedom fighting'.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: FlyersFan
People are going to support hamas because they are attacking Jews.
QED
Above all one must at all times live as a complete human being […] read only the good ones, not such kitsch as the “Spinoza novel” which you sent me. What do you want with this theme of the “special suffering of the Jews”? I am just as much concerned with the poor victims on the rubber plantations of Putumayo, the Blacks in Africa with whose corpses the Europeans play catch […] they resound with me so strongly that I have no special place in my heart for the ghetto. I feel at home in the entire world, wherever there are clouds and birds and human tears.”