• zerfuffle@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Really makes you think about why Hamas is so radicalized, doesn’t it? It’s not like you can pull a Muslim out of a hat and radicalize them. People in a stable, healthy, and fair socioeconomic position do not see violence as an answer. People who live under constant oppression, inequality, and fear do.

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      And the irony is that Israel allowed Hamas to be funded by Arabic countries 25 years ago when it was a way to weaken Arafat and the PLO. Everything in this area is fucked beyond parody. No authority on either side has any idea about morality.

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        Netanyahu actually said something very similar, that the best way to destabilise the Palestinian Authority was to finance Hamas.

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        The same parallels with how the US funded what would later become Al Qaeda to fuck with the Soviets. Then they did 9/11.

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      People who live under constant oppression, inequality, and fear do.

      Having a religion that claims that you’re the greatest people on this planet helps.

      edit You guys think that it doesn’t help, or that Abrahamic religions aren’t saying that? Help me understand.

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          A remarkably small amount of people on this planet think they should be, no, make that deserve to be living in the area where biblical / quranic time people lived. But yeah, the amount of people who think they’re the greatest people is probably much more than just half.

          Even I may have been known to make that mistake every now and other second.