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minus-squareWaxedWookie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 months agoWhy were Israel sponsoring Hamas, a terrorist group, to displace the moderate PLO-aligned orgs then? Irredeemable stupidity? Antisemitism? Manufacturing a pretext for the genocide they’re now committing, perhaps? We’ve established elsewhere that Israel meets the UN definition of terrorism.
minus-squareSCB@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·7 months ago Irredeemable stupidity? As always, when something truly terrible happens, it’s this.
minus-squareWaxedWookie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·7 months agoWhile genocide does require intense stupidity, decades-long escalation toward genocide when you’re dependent on US support requires a pretext before you can escalate. There’s elements of all of the above - busy mostly the pretext.
Why were Israel sponsoring Hamas, a terrorist group, to displace the moderate PLO-aligned orgs then?
Irredeemable stupidity?
Antisemitism?
Manufacturing a pretext for the genocide they’re now committing, perhaps?
We’ve established elsewhere that Israel meets the UN definition of terrorism.
As always, when something truly terrible happens, it’s this.
While genocide does require intense stupidity, decades-long escalation toward genocide when you’re dependent on US support requires a pretext before you can escalate. There’s elements of all of the above - busy mostly the pretext.