Sounds like it’s high time for a change in leadership!
…and nobody has been given a decision…
Wikipedia would call those ‘weasel words’, passive voice. Been given? Who’s going to give it to them? They’re independent and self-governing. If they don’t agree with the actions of their leaders, they need to change leaders; neither Israel nor anybody else can do that for them.
If Hamas doesn’t represent the Palestinians, and refuses to step aside, that makes them bad guys twice over: terrorists to Israel and tyrants to the Palestinians. My understanding is that they’re pretty popular, though.
I worded things exactly as I meant them. They haven’t been given a decision that doesn’t involve a probably violent uprising, so they would have to make their own opportunity but authoritarians tend not to like that thus the deading oneself part of my comment. I think we agree ultimately.
Yeah, I read a breakdown of governance is Gaza, and it was honestly bewildering: Hamas has a few different wings for civilian and military governance, and then there’s the Palestinian Authority which plays some kind of role, and a Hezbollah influence… It’s a fucking mess, and it’s a shame. But honestly: there’s nobody in a position to help the Palestinians to pick more reasonable leaders, except possibly Iran or the Saudis exerting influence, which they’re not inclined to do, because to them the Palestinians are just a piece on a chessboard.
Honestly it might help the Palestinians (though not Hamas) if Israel and Saudi Arabia normalized relationships, if only because they’d be a less useful chess piece.
Sounds like it’s high time for a change in leadership!
Wikipedia would call those ‘weasel words’, passive voice. Been given? Who’s going to give it to them? They’re independent and self-governing. If they don’t agree with the actions of their leaders, they need to change leaders; neither Israel nor anybody else can do that for them.
If Hamas doesn’t represent the Palestinians, and refuses to step aside, that makes them bad guys twice over: terrorists to Israel and tyrants to the Palestinians. My understanding is that they’re pretty popular, though.
I worded things exactly as I meant them. They haven’t been given a decision that doesn’t involve a probably violent uprising, so they would have to make their own opportunity but authoritarians tend not to like that thus the deading oneself part of my comment. I think we agree ultimately.
As far as Palestinian’s support for Hamas goes, I find that the whole story is honestly kind of nuanced the more I read. https://theconversation.com/hamas-was-unpopular-in-gaza-before-it-attacked-israel-surveys-showed-gazans-cared-more-about-fighting-poverty-than-armed-resistance-215640
Yeah, I read a breakdown of governance is Gaza, and it was honestly bewildering: Hamas has a few different wings for civilian and military governance, and then there’s the Palestinian Authority which plays some kind of role, and a Hezbollah influence… It’s a fucking mess, and it’s a shame. But honestly: there’s nobody in a position to help the Palestinians to pick more reasonable leaders, except possibly Iran or the Saudis exerting influence, which they’re not inclined to do, because to them the Palestinians are just a piece on a chessboard.
Honestly it might help the Palestinians (though not Hamas) if Israel and Saudi Arabia normalized relationships, if only because they’d be a less useful chess piece.