Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: The Global March to Jerusalem, a brave and admirable attempt to awaken the world’s conscience [View all]pelsar
(12,283 posts)but there is a reason...your views are not just simplistic but in a way dangerous, as you might inspire naive college kids to join the "useful idiote crowd" that hamas and friends love to use.
.I'm not against people of one race living in a state governed by another. I'm fine with that-the issue is HOW they are governed
so given that hamas has been imposing shari law on its citizens and under israeli occupation it did not exist. There were no "nation wide elections under the occupation and neither is it under hamas.
Hamas governs by the gun and during the protests apparently has no problem using them, and i guess they don't really care for rubber bullets, etc
Hamas like the occupation has checkpoints, detentions etc
The israeli occupation was secular in character giving some basic freedoms to the gazans, hamas doesn't.
The israeli occupation provided for freedom of movement and reporting by international and UN NGOs...hamas doesn't.
The israeli occupation provided for basic security to both israeli and gazans...hamas has instigated a tit for tat war that erupts anytime anywhere.
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if your stating your sole concern is "HOW they are governed, its reasonable to say that Hamas is much worse than the israeli occupation, yet you prefer hamas, simply because they have the "proper genes." This has nothing to the do with israelis being jews, it has to do with your general racist attitude.
saying that one ethnicity should be held under the military dominance of another(which is what I actually oppose, and which most reasonable people would oppose anywhere).
its not HOW they are governed, as clearly hamas is much much worse than the occupation, but still you prefer it.
my only guess and feel free to correct me, is that you believe with hamas as the proper ruling party, they are on the road and this is the singly only road to western value democracy
since that is the only answer i can think of that doesn't reak of racism...(meaning your making a trade off: having a govt of the proper race (gaza/arab) for the meantime and eventually that will "see the light" and rid themselves of such a racial attitude.
hows that for a clarification of you beliefs?