Almost three in four Palestinians believe the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel was correct, and the ensuing Gaza war has lifted support for the Islamist group both there and in the West Bank, a survey from a respected Palestinian polling institute found.

  • crapwittyname@lemm.eeEnglish
    498·
    11 months ago

    Watch as the Israeli talking heads wheel out this poll as an excuse for killing Gazan civilians.

        • crapwittyname@lemm.eeEnglish
          154·
          11 months ago

          No. But even if 100% of the population of Gaza supported Hamas and even the Al Aqsa Flood, that’s still no excuse to kill civilians.
          However the Israeli government has given no straight answers, fabricated evidence, and muddied the waters continuously since the 7th of October. It uses every opportunity to distract from and distort the truth. It will also take this as just such an opportunity.

  • LollerCorleone@kbin.social
    329·
    11 months ago

    Most Palestinians alive today were born into what is practically an open-air prison that is cordoned off by Israel. Being oppressed is all they have known. Its obvious that they hate their colonisers. And all these bombings will only fuel that hatred.

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    244·
    11 months ago

    It’s really disappointing and I can’t help but wonder how much Israel constantly shelling civilians is helping to prop up a shitheel organization like Hamas.

    • SlikPikker@lemmy.caEnglish
      85·
      11 months ago

      Israel funded and deliberately strengthened Hamas. Since Israel is the side with economic, technological, logistical and material superiority -

      This is entirely their fault.

    • Stamets@lemmy.worldEnglish
      64·
      11 months ago

      Israel made this monster and I mean that literally. Politicians of Israel openly said Hamas is a useful tool for them. Israel itself funded Hamas.

      As long as there is a “monster” there is a justification for an attack. It is genuinely fucking astounding how Israel looked at the treatment of Jews during WW2 and took that as a playbook instead of the most horrific thing to happen in the last century and something that shouldn’t be repeated.

  • Why9@lemmy.worldEnglish
    176·
    11 months ago

    Wait, what polls?

    “I’m sorry your house got blown up and you lost all of your family members and are going to have your legs amputated, likely without anesthetic or clean supplies, but do you have time for a quick survey?”

    • DolphinMath@slrpnk.netEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      2nd paragraph of the article gives the source if that’s what you want to know.

      The Palestinian Center for Policy Survey and Research (PCPSR) findings were published as international alarm grows over the spiralling Palestinian civilian toll in the Israeli counter-offensive against Hamas, now in its third month.

    • filister@lemmy.worldEnglish
      55·
      11 months ago

      I mean are you seriously surprised by those results? You can’t kill an idea, you can replace it with a better idea. But with such an indiscriminate bombing and an international community who is still saying that Israel has the high moral ground, they feel betrayed by everyone but Hamas.

      I don’t like it either, but I think the majority of the human beings in their situation would react the same? Do you believe that if Israel and Palestine were living in peace and everyone was treated equally and with respect, Hamas would have been a political factor?

      • blahsay@lemmy.worldEnglish
        34·
        11 months ago

        They’re betrayed by Hamas above all! Poor Palestinians have a government that’s trying to get them all killed for propaganda