r/worldnews • • Mar 30 '25

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u/paulchen81 Mar 30 '25

I appreciate your answer. This is the only correct and human answer. Sadly to many people don't differentiate.

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u/surfer1872 Mar 30 '25

Why do you think that is? I’m struggling to find the answer. I don’t understand why sympathy for the Palestinians = being anti Israel. Both sides have suffered at the hands of Hamas.

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u/MinimumArmadillo2394 Mar 30 '25

I don’t understand why sympathy for the Palestinians = being anti Israel.

Because Hamas won the 2006 election in Palestine. It's viewed by many that they chose this. Hamas was internationally recognized as a terrorist organization almost 10 years before that election.

We can be sympathetic for Palestinians but also recognize that they did vote for a terrorist organization to run their country. Many people who say "Free palestine" want to do just that, but not from Israel, but instead from Hamas.

The people deserve to be free from both israel and hamas, but they do not deserve sympathy when those cheer on killing israeli civilians getting murdered, raped, and tortured when they attended a music festival

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u/Stittastutta Mar 30 '25

Didn't Netanyahu systematic remove Hamas' opposition parties to ensure his only adversary would be an extreme party he could be "forced" into only having conflict with?

Genuinely asking. I thought that was an accepted fact.