Let's just call a spade a spade here if these people were American, UK, Irish and Australian citizens etc there would be uproar.
I don't see how describing Hamas as a terrorist organisation is a controversial opinion.
They are an islamic terrorist organisation who pose a serious threat to us in the west. I fully stand by whoever is in opposition to them.
The goal posts just keep on moving. First it's why are they killing Palestinian citizens? Right ok that's fair enough, but when they take out a Hamas commander people then say why did they do that? He was the nice/good Hamas man!
I just can't get my head around that sort of thing at all. People are contradicting themselves so much they have themselves tangled up in knots.
Hamas don't pose a threat to anyone other than Israel. They are a Islamist Palestinian national liberation movement that uses terrorist tactics in asymmetrical warfare. They have never planned or carried out an attack or operation anywhere else in the world.
People say "why did they do that?" with regard to the assassination of Ismael Haniyeh because:
a) they want to see a ceasefire and the safe return of the Israeli hostages, and extrajudicial killings on foreign soil of the people you're supposed to be negotiating this with aren't likely to bring it about.
b) extrajudicial killings on foreign soil are contrary to international law.
c) actions like the above are likely to drag Israel into a wider conflict with both Iran and Hezbollah. You can't just go around blowing stuff up in other people's countries.
d) The people that replace Haniyeh are likely to be of an even more radical mindset.
It is incomprehensible to me that anyone who cares about the hostages in Gaza would think the assassination of Ismael Haniyeh was a sensible thing to do at this time.
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