Comment by runarberg
2 years ago
You are posting under an article called “The pro-Israel information war” which includes a subsection titled “‘Ridicule Works’: The Social Media War ” where you will find paragraphs such as:
> “Hamas does really good PR,” continued Schwarzbard. “We need to change the narrative.” She implored the group to use focused language. “We need people to see this isn't just a run-of-the-mill resistance, freedom fighter group. This is something equivalent of ISIS.”
You are literally playing their game. There is no evidence for the atrocities you cite. These are only anecdotes coming from the very same people who are so careless in leaking their propaganda techniques.
Put your self in the shoe of a Palestinian. Your family is dead. Your pets are dead. Your home has been bombed. You know who did these things. You know they will face no justice under the current order. Off course you support any resistance to this order, off course you support the people who are actively trying to make these offenders pay for their crimes.
There is no evidence to the atrocities? Come on, you are absolutely not engaging in good faith if you say that. There are whole telegram channels with numerous not-safe-for-life videos posted by hamas itself of their own inhumane vile acts.
Are you talking about this video [1] or the one from this post [2] or the audio recording cited in this Times of Israel article [3]?
Number [1] does not show anything, except a group of people trying to flee and then turn around after some load bangs. The bangs might as well be from unrelated firefight we don’t know. We have to believe the interpretations from the Israeli propaganda machine to conclude your claim of Hamas snipers firing at them is true. If you are a Palestinian, you are very unlikely to do that. Conveniently the IDF has a recording of a Palestinian doing exactly that [3]. However this is material recorded and distributed by IDF them self. IDF has been shown to release plenty of material of questionable origin. And if you are a Palestinian you are not going to take them at their words.
Note I’m not saying Hamas hasn’t done any atrocities, of course they have. As did FLN, IRA, Mau Mau, Viet Cong, ANC, etc. before them. However how we view these atrocities depends very much on whether you justify the colonizer or sympathize with the colonized. If you are part of the colonized and living their oppression, you are very unlikely to justify the colonial enterprise. And you are very likely to justify any actions against them, even the most horrible ones. In many cases history has joined the colonized and indeed justified the resistance.
1: https://twitter.com/alexhiggins732/status/172294287253666242...
2: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/viral-video-appears-to-...
3: https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-gaza-resident-says-hamas-p...