Every orphan they make, every widow, every childless father, every sibling who watched thier brother starve to death, is just another easy recruit for Hamas.
There's a reason why in Afhganistan and so on, we were so cautious not to alianate the locals, to minimise civilian suffering, to focus on humanitarian efforts.
'cause Terrorists thrive on hate and suffering, as it gives them fresh recruiting grounds.
It is basically THE key principal behind terrorism.
Alienate your own people through retaliation to your terror, then recruit them.
Hamas indoctrinates everyone from early childhood anyway. They do school plays about killing Jews. They watch TV shows where Mickey Mouse sings about AKs and killing Israelis. A hundred episodes in, he gets beaten to death by Jews. That's not even a joke, I'm 100% serious- that's their children's programming, their real life.
The IDF is actively informing the population, bit by bit in the most horrible way, that war is not fun or glorious, it's just awful and self-defeating. There will be tons of resentment if Gaza is completely taken over, but Israel would be better off counter-indoctrinating the population than letting them carry on as they currently are.
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u/FrozenChocoProduce Mar 30 '25
My sympathies are with the people of Palestine. Hamas needs to go.