They’re bad guys because they murdered a bunch of families and young people minding their own business. They’re bad guys for weaponizing rape. They’re bad guys for knowingly bringing the wrath of the Israeli military down on Gaza. They’re bad guys for using money given to them by Israel and other nations to do those things instead of helping Gazans.
Note that I’m calling them “bad guys”, not “the bad guys”, because they don’t hold the monopoly on being bad. The IDF are also bad guys for their willingness to bomb buildings full of civilians for the chance of maybe killing a Hamas member or collapsing a tunnel.
Why do we have to reduce it to “good” or “bad”? They have reprehensible methods, but the fact that they exist is an inevitable consequence of the conditions that the Palestinians have been living in for decades.
The idea that Hamas and the IDF are two “sides” is itself absurd. Hamas have absolutely no chance of victory against the IDF. There is no world in which they can even compete! They are a desperate attempt to take action by a people who have been pushed to the brink.
They aren’t a side, they are a symptom. They’ve done terrible things! But those things are a consequence of the circumstances that caused Hamas to exist.
They’re bad guys because they murdered a bunch of families and young people minding their own business. They’re bad guys for weaponizing rape. They’re bad guys for knowingly bringing the wrath of the Israeli military down on Gaza. They’re bad guys for using money given to them by Israel and other nations to do those things instead of helping Gazans.
Note that I’m calling them “bad guys”, not “the bad guys”, because they don’t hold the monopoly on being bad. The IDF are also bad guys for their willingness to bomb buildings full of civilians for the chance of maybe killing a Hamas member or collapsing a tunnel.
Why do we have to reduce it to “good” or “bad”? They have reprehensible methods, but the fact that they exist is an inevitable consequence of the conditions that the Palestinians have been living in for decades.
The idea that Hamas and the IDF are two “sides” is itself absurd. Hamas have absolutely no chance of victory against the IDF. There is no world in which they can even compete! They are a desperate attempt to take action by a people who have been pushed to the brink.
They aren’t a side, they are a symptom. They’ve done terrible things! But those things are a consequence of the circumstances that caused Hamas to exist.