Comment on Hamas, federation and legality
Historical_General@lemm.ee 8 months agoI’ll add that this conflict is not a religious conflict. Religion adds some heat but it is fundamentally about settler colonialism, theft of land, racism and apartheid.
Arafat, their previous leader was literally a Christian, not Muslim. And Hamas, an Islamist organisation was literally funded by the Mossad against the PLO (Arafat’s organisation). What Israel faced is literally their own fault - it’s blowback like how the US got 911ed by the Saudis they funded.
trespass@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Fair point, I oversimplified a bit. Sounds a bit more of a nationalism issue?
Historical_General@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Land is what’s at stake, when people are removed from their land or displaced, that constitutes genocide, keeping them under a seperate set of law while favouring Jews is apartheid (literally worse than South Africa, because the whites actually needed low wage workers while Israelis just carry on killing).
All of that comes under settler-colonialism, but certainly nationalism is part of the domestic agenda.