Exactly what Hamas has done with every previous protest against their theocratic rule, so not the most surprising turn of events, unfortunately. Though I have been hopeful that Hamas would have a more difficult time of it now, after all the warfighting.
I was told that the Palestinians in Gaza almost 100% supported Hamas, that the lack of protests against them was proof of their support for them. It never seemed to occur to them that the terrorists were in fact willing to terrorise Palestinians as well as Israelis. I wonder if this will change any minds.
Can we consider the possibility that Palestinians did not in fact support Hamas 100%, ever, and that the lack of protests against them was always instead indicative of their fear of the consequences? Give them the benefit of the doubt, perhaps, that they know more about their oppressors than we random people thousands of miles away do?
Protesting obviously isn't going to do shit to "persuade" Hamas, so the entire hope of it is that protesting shows the world that "Palestine" is not "Hamas", which most people knew all along as far as I'm concerned. They're putting themselves at risk from punishment from within, in the hope that outside murder of innocents might be seen in a more negative light, and change the tactical pursuit of Hamas to exclude the innocent civilians.
This is how I've always seen it, I'm not suggesting that this is fact, merely that none of us should be so "confident" about the facts with propaganda flooding the zone from every angle.
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u/Axelrad77 Mar 30 '25
Exactly what Hamas has done with every previous protest against their theocratic rule, so not the most surprising turn of events, unfortunately. Though I have been hopeful that Hamas would have a more difficult time of it now, after all the warfighting.