Israel had a years warning ahead of time when they acquired access to Hamas’ plan to break through the walls of Gaza, where food, water, internet, electricity, and basic necessities were controlled by Israel, and their intelligence shrugged it off immediately. Their own hubris made this happen, and they were so busy focusing upon further controlling the West Bank region that Netanyahu both instilled ignorance of the struggles Palestinians in Gaza faced, and noxious pride that led to disregarding the power Hamas was gaining.
Israel has the capabilities to stop the resistance forces, and… Read more they failed to use it until they launched a brutal counter offensive against Gaza to solidify their grip on the region, a land that they had only partially owned once in all of history during the Kingdom of Israel’s seizure of its northern 1/3 territory. To say that Israel has a right to do what they’re doing is absolutely absurd, they’ve no precedence or real authority over the land to call that their own besides wanton coercion to control it from the outside.
Hamas was brought up by Israel in the first place to counter the PLO, creating a much more religiously zealous enemy than ever before, which now hates the Israeli occupiers for their mere existence rather than just colonizing the land. Colonization isn’t even a contestable point here, the Zionists were extremely honest and blunt about their intention to colonize the land in their charter, their words, and their actions. The intent was, from the beginning, bad faith and misguided.
The world didn’t even give the Zionists the land because we felt bad for Jews, Britain handed it to them because it suited their interests to curtail waves of Jewish immigrants to their country. Balfour’s Declaration was the adoption of a perceived solution: take the land theyd promised the Arabs control of, and hand it to the Jews. Balfour himself, along with Churchill and many of the original Zionist supporters and founders, were shockingly antisemitic, and extremely racist towards the Arab peoples who had lived there for generations.
Attacks by Hamas came from the continued and constant suppression of the Gazan population that has left them incapable of accessing basic human needs, construction, medical technologies, clean water, and food supplies for their families. Millions are shoved into the concentration camp that is the remains of Gaza, a land whose population is almost entirely disarmed, displaced, and disseminated from their homes. Many of them have never managed to leave Gaza, nor gained access to clean water because 90% of it is deemed unfit for basic human consumption.
Their desalination plants, hospitals, schools, and shambling apartment buildings have all been completely or partially obliterated, either before the war or after. The entire region of Palestine hasn’t known true peace since Israel formed from Zionist domination, they have been openly, obviously, and publicly mistreated and abused, while the Israelis played the victim every time Arab radicals, fundamentalist Muslim or not, tried to take back what they lost.
That land was there’s, the Israelis didn’t have any claim to that land since the diaspora, and the people who actually do have genetic claims to the land were the Arabs and Arab Jews who’d been there since the diaspora, taking the hits and the oppression over time, yet had few demands or desires for a state as much as mutual respect and safety. Almost all wishes for Zionism came from the outside, from European Jews who’d lost genetic claims to the land they so often espouse. Arab Jews were more often in the way of Zionists, and have been frequently ostracized, arrested, or sometimes even killed for that.
Hamas itself is one tiny piece of the massive historical puzzle, and is irrelevant to the broader political debate in the region. The Palestinian genocide on the other hand, THAT is much more serious and pressing to the debate, and evidence strongly points towards it. Actions made in the West Bank have been strongly linked to heavy amounts of ethnically motivated segregation, intentional decrease of Palestinian birth and safety, lack of resource accessibility, intentional apartheid based upon granting rights by ethnicity and downgrading Palestinians, and so much more. I could go on for days, from specifics to wide ranging details.
There’s no competition, Palestine is the one needing aid, they’re starving, they’re thirsty, they’re unarmed, and they’re suffering. They’ve been given far less than the bare minimum UN recommended assistance, and lack any support or quality healthcare, largely because of Israel itself and it’s open and transparent cleansing of the Palestinian people.
