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[–] TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 74 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (16 children)

Reading these comments is fucking insane.

Calling Hamas "freedom fighters" is an insult to every real current and past freedom fighter in history of mankind.

Freedom fighters dont choose targets that are exclusively civilian, they don't hunt down and execute civilians, nit caring about their beliefs or standing. They don't spread terror among the civilian population. All of these things make the thing they are fighting stronger and puts the rest of the population against them. It's what terrorists do.

Why do you think people in the zionist government support Hamas?! Because it serves to justify the hanous things the government does against Palestinians as a whole.

Real freedom fighters choose infrastructure, smaller military targets (that are reachable), political assassinations of the government officials they are against, et cetera.

These cause civilian casualties, but the civilian casualties are not the goal, they are the byproduct.

Palestinians deserve so much more than Hamas, but Hamas won't let them choose. They silence or kill anyone who disagrees with them, be it Israeli of Palestinian.

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

Fuck Hamas.

[–] Iceman@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There is no such thing as "real freedom fighters" War is not a moral thought experiment.Terrorism is at the end of the day a a military strategy. Which freedom figheters, militas and regular armiees use all the time.

[–] ricdeh@lemmy.world -4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's incredibly heartless to say such things

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 11 months ago

It would be if using or not using terror would be orthogonal to success in war. War is a zero-sum game and you simply can't throw out anything giving advantage - you'll be punished by evolution, as simple as that.

Unless you are in some artificial situation where rules of war are respected and if they are not you are punished by neutral sides. Sadly our era doesn't have any such mechanism despite all the declarations. It's not Frederic the Great's time.

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