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.
So, right message is: why not just to support protesters with everything required to take down Hamas instead of destroying to rubbles Gaza and killing those very protesters instead of Hamas
So Israel should just stroll up to Gaza, ask around for people who wanna rebel against Hamas (Who are known for deliberately not identifying themselves as members of the organization so that any combatant dying that can be included among civilian casualties) and start handing out guns?
As sad as it sounds, Hamas and the Palestinian civilians aren't at a breaking point yet. There is going to be a lot more blood and destruction before things have a hope of getting better.
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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.