• WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Why were Israel sponsoring Hamas, a terrorist group, to displace the moderate PLO-aligned orgs then?

    Irredeemable stupidity?

    Antisemitism?

    Manufacturing a pretext for the genocide they’re now committing, perhaps?

    We’ve established elsewhere that Israel meets the UN definition of terrorism.

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      11 months ago

      Irredeemable stupidity?

      As always, when something truly terrible happens, it’s this.

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        11 months ago

        While genocide does require intense stupidity, decades-long escalation toward genocide when you’re dependent on US support requires a pretext before you can escalate. There’s elements of all of the above - busy mostly the pretext.