I want to roll my eyes every time I see somebody take this stance, not simply because it is tiresome and it takes no courage to say, but mostly because it ignores the context. Every time. It not only overlooks how and why neocolonialism lead to Hamas, it overlooks why Hamas would resort to crude tactics like taking hostages (as if the Zionist régime was always open to dialogue), it overlooks why a substantial percentage of Palestinian adults support Hamas, it overlooks the decades of atrocities that Zionist authorities have been committing against the Palestinians since day one, and most of all, it overlooks the overwhelming amount of power that the Zionist ruling class has in this situation.
My response: fine, you don’t have to like Hamas, but to focus on condemning it repeatedly is to lose sight of the very conditions and the ruling class that gave rise to Hamas in the first place; it’s a bland inaction that gets us nowhere. If you say ‘Hamas is the real problem’ or ‘Hamas is just as bad as the IDF’ then I’m afraid that you have missed the point completely.
To be honest, Hamas won the 2006 election.
Not sure what you meant to imply but this doesn’t contradict anything in the OP.
I’d say it’s in addition to the OP.
Hamas is of the people. They aren’t from a different class or country or region or anything, they’ll all just Gaza residents that lost everything and chose to join up. A true guerilla movement and the legitimate elected government at the same time.
If you say “I support Palestinians, but I’m against Hamas” you need to reconcile with the fact that Palestinians in Gaza support Hamas.
It’s alluded to:
I mean: No matter what the outside world thinks, the basic facts cannot be denied.
How many elections have they won since 2006?
every single one.