‘We can’t confuse Hamas with all Palestinians’: Spain says amid aid review
‘We can’t confuse Hamas with all Palestinians’: Spain says amid aid review
European Union foreign ministers are due to discuss the proposed suspension of EU aid to the Palestinian territories.
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Haven’t surveys shown that a majority of Palestinians support Hamas?
Sure but you try being killed and kicked out of your homes. I'm sure you would not like the people who are doing it either. Israel has created this mess.
People forget Israel is the one with the power and creating this issue. If Israel actually backs off and treats Palestine as at least human, then I think (and hope) most people will see that Hamas needs to be destroyed as they are a terrorist group.
Isn't that exactly what Israel did when they left the Gaza strip in 2005? That's the thing that lead to Hamas taking over in the first place.
Didn’t that process of backing off continue until 2007, when the terrorist group Hamas took over and restarted the terror campaigns?
They did that, and terror attacks stopped. This basically marked the end of the second Intifada. Then they blockaded Gaza, and the terror attacks came back. Then there was a ceasefire in 2012, with one of the conditions the lifting of the blockade. That didn't happen, so the terror attacks came back, and we got the 2014 war. See the pattern here?
I mean if you live in a country controlled by a terrorist group that kills anyone who is not their side, and someone goes to your door and asks if you support them... What would you say?
It's easy to dismiss this issue by thinking they have the same freedom of speech as we do in the west, and they can have political opinions without any repercussion.
Same can be said about north Korea.
Let's hope the majority are forced into supporting terrorists as their leaders (that sounds so wrong), but let's not fool ourselves into believing that a significant number of them don't support Hamas.
The leader of Hamas is in year 18 of his 4 year term, and no one seems to have a problem with it.
no one seems to have a problem with it.
No one alive seems to have a problem with it. They literally can't complain. Opposed and terrorised by Israel on one side, and Hamas on the other. Defying either is a death sentence.
yeah yeah yeah, and not all Germans were Nazis.
I mean yeah, not all Germans were Nazis....
Dude thinks he made a salient point
sounds like something a nazi would say.
In 1919, Germany and the Allied Powers signed the Treaty of Versailles. A major component of this treaty was Germany recognizing her role in WW1, and agreeing to make significant reparations, in the form of territory, money, and disarment.
In 1939, under Hitler's leadership, Germany invades Poland. Germany surrendered in 1945, and in 1947, the US began the Marshal plan, dumping a significant amount of money into Europe, with the 3rd largest benefactor being West Germany, receiving 11% of the total funding.
Empirically, caring about the wellbeing of the German people was a far more successful policy than punishing them.
Also, most of the Germans attempting to flee Nazi Germany were not Nazi's despite the fact that many countries (including the US) refused them entry out of feer of Nazis.
I think elections showed Vladimir Putin won with >90% of the vote.
Kim Jong Un also seems to enjoy the support of his people.
Hamas is the only group in this world standing up for the Palestinian people, so I would support them too, we're I locked up in that open air prison, my family and friends being constantly murdered for profit.
From: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_the_State_of_Palestine
Of the 193 member states of the United Nations, 138 (71.5%) have recognised the State of Palestine as of 31 July 2019.
Hamas are terrorists and are only using Palestinians as pawns. Hamas give the fascists in the Israeli government the justification to commit their crimes.
Exactly this. The fact that people can't parse this out is insane to me.