Do lots of people support Hamas?

@ChickHenLittle and it doesn't help that Putin and some others must be extremely happy knowing that anything the US condemns them with now won't hold as much weight

Let's hope vetoes are abolished. Lots of headlines saying the US is now isolating itself and could be seen as complicit in war crimes since it is facilitating the Israeli government.
It's a confusing and downright awful system that both are causing international outrage and politically isolating themselves, yet they can't be stopped.

No, I'm not going to click on some random Instagram link and pretend it's educational. If you think this is all Israel's fault and nothing to do with Hamas I'd expect you to be able to back up that accusation with words as it's a pretty bold statement to make.

Lots of them support Hamas. Look at all those (perfectly normal looking) women tearing down pictures of missing Israeli children and babies.

Noam will go to his very last breath check out Chis Hedges he is a very worthy successor told inherit the baton on intellectual truth and justice.ll

Sorry, my last post was meant to be a response to this message.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzF4tgcIkXB/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

This explains it very clearly. Please watch. Please open your eyes.

There is - so far as I am aware - no such thing as a "formal mechanism".

There is such a thing as "realpolitik".

Realistically speaking, in a "cold, hard, realism" sort of way: there is every chance that what is happening will result in a further shift of power towards the BRICs, as so-called "Western values" being shown up for the fraud that they have, realistically speaking, always kind of been: a fig leave for hegemonic indirect imperialism.

I wish Edward Said was alive to explain this better! I wish Noam Chomsky had not turned 95 yesterday and was 20 years younger and better positioned to speak up! I miss them!

Can they do that though? What's the mechanism that could get rid of the veto? Those with a veto can probably veto it.

Biden has just put the continuing existence of the UN into question. The US veto has clearly stated that international law doesn’t apply to the US or Israel. That they are above international law.

It’s an Animal Farm moment of reckoning, the full impact of which will echo for generations.

If we are lucky, the UN will abolish the ability of any country to veto. There will be no permanent member privileges. It will have a mutiny of its own and become truly Democratic- one nation, one vote.

If we are unlucky, nations will see this as the penultimate fuck you and the world will descend into chaos and warfare because why bother to follow international law if a few are operating outside the law with impunity and zero consequence? If this happens, then climate change will be the very least of our worries.

You are definitely not alone. I type out a lot of posts and then delete them before posting these days. I'm really angry too. A lot of people are feeling really angry and really helpless, then that anger is thrown back in your face, you are called 'unhinged' and 'over emotional'. Of course I'm fucking over emotional, 1000s of people are being killed and it could be stopped right now if only people were put before politics and money.

I find it hard to even post these days. Because what I really want to say very often is just [redacted] after all that has happened!

With every dead child, every residential neighbourhood flattened, I get angrier!

Every "administrative detainee" taken in Tulkarm, Nablus, Hebron, Jenin, ... I get angrier!

Every village on the West Bank, whose people end up displaced because of extremist settlers - protected and armed by the Israeli state - I get angrier!

Pictures of stripped almost naked, kneeling abducted civilians. Israeli accounts gloating about "we caught Hamas". No, you fucking did not, you fucking war criminals! You kidnapped civilians! You did the exact same thing when you grabbed my friend, H., and made him kneel in the exact same position for hours! When you shot in front of my feet when I could not take it anymore and decided to approach with water for him - and: when I was not deterred, you held a fucking gun to his head! Admittedly: I WAS deterred by that!

Every time you remind me of that moment, I get angrier!

When Netanyahu published "but, but, but, ... if you accuse us of war crimes, you are an antisemite", I get angrier!

I am not alone!

How so?

I think they are a result of the real problem. Israel.

Sorry messed up the quote, that was to @BF1989

I read it as they do think Hamas is the problem

Just goes to show we all interpret posts differently

You don't think Hamas is a problem?

If only it was that simple

The occupation is the root cause, though!

Hamas is the problem 🤷🏻‍♀️

This is an interesting read

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/07/opinions/israel-hamas-gaza-media-press-prusher/index.html

Do you not think that Hamas is a problem? Other wrongs do not make Hamas not a problem. Their aims haven't helped the ordinary Palestinian civilian at all.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C0kkXwrtoTn/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

… and people think Hamas is the problem.

Called what ? I don’t just sit on mn for 24 hours to respond to posts immediately. I was catching up actually. And yes,we were talking about independent news reports, the Jewish Chronicle are not independent and nor would I expect them to be.

@Katy231 I don't for one minute consider that figure to be accurate. I'm not counting anyone.

That is the figure given by a senior person in the Israeli armed forces, in interviews with international media. If you've read my post, I've actually said in it that data gets skewed, and may indeed be reached by the IDF, for example, saying they'll class all male casualties as fighters, or anyone who tries to defend themselves. I do not think it is an accurate ratio and it certainly doesn't reflect the data and eyewitness accounts coming from Gaza.

The true horror of that 'estimate' is that this is a figure that was considered 'acceptable' and justifiable enough to trot out in interviews with major news outlets. And people aren't horrified anyway. People should be horrified by that figure - and it's horrifying to think that there are truly people out there who are ok with it, even knowing that the reality is far, far worse.

In war and humanitarian crises, the most reliable sources of estimates of casualties are independent parties such as the UN and WHO, who, as I've said, have accepted the validity of the casualty estimates of over 16,000 deaths of which over 6,000 have been children.