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I'm just incredibly shocked by the fact that an admin of the instance lemmy.dbzer0.com is openly supporting Hamas.
Here's a link to the comment: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/61235665/23634712
There is no excusing rape and murder of civilians. You can't handwave such atrocities as imperfection
You're posting hasbara again, and what's more is it's "every accusation is a confession" shit with a growing mountain of evidence that Israel military forces like the IDF and IOF use sexual violence to terrorize Palestinian civilians as well as incoming aid workers trying to help starving children.
Please stop re-perpetuating this harmful and wrong misinformation.
I don't support Israel or IDF, they can go suck a bag of dicks lol
But surely you can acknowledge that the rape and murder of civilians isn't resistance?
why is it so hard for yanks to understand that both things can be bad
I am not endorsing Hamas as the legitimate leadership of Palestine. But I am saying that there is no credible evidence of rape and murder of civilians "as resistance." You are perpetuating a harmful zionist talking point uncritically and it does the work for who you claim not to support for them. The world is filled with enough injustice to speak truth into the world about how genocide and the starving of children is wrong without doing what you're doing here.
Hamas raped women during the 7th of October and sexually assaulted hostages. There was also the whole massacre thing during the 7th of October where the terrorists filmed themselves shooting elderly in their homes.
These guys have no argument except calling everything Hasbara, it's such a shit show.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_and_gender-based_violence_in_the_October_7_attacks
Since they know they have no ground to stand on, they default to base programming.
I think it's a sunk cost fallacy, they can't handle considering that not everything is so black and white and that resistance movements may not always be the 'good guy' -- They're in too deep.
Yeah ambiguity is hard. Defaulting to campism is easy. Israel bad, Palestine good, Hamas good, Tankies happy. I just wish some of the self proclaimed Marxist would actually be able to think dialectical.
Nah man, marxism and communism are long dead and probably won't ever return
Do you have any substantial argument or do you always call common knowledge "Hasbara" if it doesn't suit your narrative?