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In war-battered Gaza, residents grow angry with Hamas
The Washington Post ^ | April 27, 2024 | Claire Parker, Heba Farouk Mahfouz, Hazem Balousha and Hajar Harb

Posted on 04/27/2024 9:39:28 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican

More than six months into the war in Gaza and with dimming hopes for a cease-fire deal, Palestinians there are growing more critical of Hamas, which some of them blame for the months-long conflict that has destroyed the territory — and their lives.

The war has displaced most of the Gaza Strip’s population, killed tens of thousands of people and pushed the enclave toward famine, its infrastructure in ruins. The Israeli military waged a punishing campaign to eliminate Hamas after the group, which ruled Gaza for 17 years, attacked Israel on Oct. 7, killing an estimated 1,200 people and abducting more than 250.

But while the majority of Palestinians in Gaza blame Israel for their suffering, according to polling conducted in March, they also appear to be turning their ire toward the militants. In interviews with more than a dozen residents of Gaza, people said they resent Hamas for the attacks in Israel and — war-weary and desperate to fulfill their basic needs — just want to see peace as soon as possible.

If Hamas wanted to start a war, “they should have secured people first — secured a place of refuge for them, not thrown them into suffering that no one can bear,” said Salma El-Qadomi, 33, a freelance journalist who has been displaced 11 times since the conflict started.

Palestinians want leaders “who won’t drag people into a war like this,” she said. “Almost everyone around me shares the same thoughts: We want this waterfall of blood to stop. Seventeen years of destruction and wars are enough.”

Hamas, an Islamist political and military movement, was founded in 1987 during the first Palestinian uprising. It staged some of the deadliest attacks on Israeli civilians and later won Palestinian legislative elections.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Gaza; Hamas
KEYWORDS: gaza; hamas; israel; notangryenough
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To: MinorityRepublican
"Snitches get stitches". So it's usually the smart thing to do is just to stay out of it if it does not involve you."

That's a BS street line, and a BS excuse. If you're living on the same street as the criminals that are destroying your neighborhood, and you pretend it's not happening, you are no better than the criminals victimizing your neighbors. You should be required to report everything you know to the police. When you remain silent, you are condoning the behavior, allowing more people to be victimized. Same thing with those Hollywood bimbos who kept silent when sexually assaulted by a move producer, just so they could keep their movie role. They never thought about the next woman that would be assaulted in the same manner. Then they have the nerve to come out 20 years after the fact to whine about it.

In Medieval times, if people in a village knew a crime had occurred, and knew who the criminal was, yet remained silent, the whole village was fined by the King. If somebody in the village discovered a body, and failed to report it to the authorities, they were held accountable. There were plenty of snitches back then that would turn you in. People that live in crime-ridden neighborhoods should be fined for not cooperating with the police. Maybe they'd finally decide to police their own neighborhoods. Even convicts in prison police their own cell blocks and dorms. When a troublesome inmate brings unwanted surveillance from the uniformed staff down on their block or dorm, the other inmates will confront the troublemaker, and take care of business. I know that for a fact, because I worked in uniform in NY State's prisons for 25 years, and saw it happen many times.

21 posted on 04/27/2024 10:17:56 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: MinorityRepublican
with dimming hopes for a cease-fire deal
If the Palestinians were to kill or capture the remaining members of Hamas, secure the surviving hostages, the approach the Israelis offering to release the hostages and turn over Hamas, I'm pretty sure they'd get a cease-fire pretty quickly.
22 posted on 04/27/2024 10:21:39 AM PDT by jdege
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To: MinorityRepublican

“which some of them blame for the months-long conflict that has destroyed the territory — and their lives. “

Some? I’ll bet they are in the silent minority.


23 posted on 04/27/2024 10:25:26 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. - M. Thatcher)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

I know that was meant as sarcasm, but to alter a quote a bit, you can vote your way into a dictatorial regime, but you’ll have to fight your way out.


24 posted on 04/27/2024 10:28:45 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. - M. Thatcher)
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To: blam

Stop lying.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-voting-record-in-u-s-presidential-elections


25 posted on 04/27/2024 10:31:01 AM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Well DUH! .... ya think they’re realizing who supported Hamas being in Gaza for all these years???


26 posted on 04/27/2024 10:45:25 AM PDT by high info voter (Delivery )
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

GINOs


27 posted on 04/27/2024 10:49:07 AM PDT by Leep (Leftardism strikes 1 in 5.)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham
Maybe at the next election they can vote out Hamas.

Sorry, not gonna happen. Hamas uses electronic voting machines, mass mail-in ballots, and ballot harvesting from Hamas operatives.

28 posted on 04/27/2024 11:11:01 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: RoosterRedux

Everyone has a breaking point.


29 posted on 04/27/2024 11:15:21 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim (C)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Riiiiiight. They are just angry that Hamas didn’t kill all the Jews.


30 posted on 04/27/2024 11:15:56 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Exactly; and no criticism of Oct. 7.


31 posted on 04/27/2024 11:23:00 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: RoosterRedux; MinorityRepublican

“Yeah, right. Not buying it.”

Exactly!

The Compost searches for one person for the quote they want, and voila the Palestinians hate Hamas!


32 posted on 04/27/2024 11:49:59 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

“In war-battered Gaza, residents grow angry with Hamas”

You know, maybe you Israeli hating Palistinians shouldn’t have gone along with Hamas. I hope all you so called Palis suffer big time.


33 posted on 04/27/2024 12:16:29 PM PDT by caver ( )
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To: caver

I’m sure there will be as many “Good Gazans” as there were “Good Germans” after the war.


34 posted on 04/27/2024 12:17:30 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Ha, good point!


35 posted on 04/27/2024 12:18:09 PM PDT by caver ( )
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To: MinorityRepublican

The WP screwed up. They said Hamas ran Gaza. The principal narrative is “Hamas and Gaza are separate so why should Gaza suffer for what Hamas did?”.


36 posted on 04/27/2024 12:24:17 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: AppyPappy

Gen Z writers are at the WaPo. So I see them being honest in their reporting sometimes. But that’s because they did not know that they were supposed to keep up with their propaganda.


37 posted on 04/27/2024 12:27:12 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Organic Panic
Fatal propaganda. Vaporize that dump.

Normally, before a dump is cleaned up, you remove the people. Plenty of land in surrounding Arab countries to take them in, and use their billions of petrol dollars to clean up the dump and make it a paradise. But that will never happen. Residents of dumps are like cockroaches. Squash them, kill them, vaporize them, whatever it takes so the dump won't spread.

38 posted on 04/27/2024 12:29:59 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: MinorityRepublican

what’s of possible significance is that this story was printed in the far leftist WashPost

it just might be a signal for the commie/nazi/leftist moles, spies, and secret agents in WashDC... and all of their Useful Idiots on college campuses.....that Der Leader(s) have finally recognized that it is long past time to throw the Fakestinian terrorist murderer gangsters Under The Camel

maybe, we can hope anyway


39 posted on 04/27/2024 1:38:36 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: aquila48
Some of the young October 6 terrorists called home to their moms in Gaza just after raping and killing young Israeli women. They did this in front of surviving Israeli family members.

THEY WERE GLEEFUL AND THEY AND THEIR MOMS LAUGHED WITH PLEASURE.

Of course there are exceptions, but many of the people in Gaza share the psychopathy of their sons in Hamas.

40 posted on 04/27/2024 2:42:12 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a closed mind will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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