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Jeff Styers's avatar

Only 44% of the residents of Gaza voted for Hamas in 2006, they won the ballot on a plurality of the vote. Since then there have been no more elections and the residents of Gaza have existed in an open air prison. It's extremely doubtful Hamas has anything resembling the level of support you claim.

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Scott Gaynor's avatar

And found this. The Palestinians - across BOTH Gaza and the West Bank - show much greater support for Hamas than Fatah.

But sure...nothing like the level of support "I claim."

"If new presidential elections were held today and only two were nominated, Mahmoud Abbas and Ismail Haniyeh, only 46% would participate and from among those, Abbas would receive 36% and Haniyeh 52% of the votes"

https://pcpsr.org/en/node/938

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Scott Gaynor's avatar

Really? Sure...It's just 20,000 Hamas fighters out of 2.2 million people that are the baddies. The rest are just peace loving innocents.

I guess you also believe that the people that lived in the towns outside German concentration camps were completely innocent because they weren't actively killing people.

FFS.

Try reading...

"The bloody events of last weekend, including the massacre of over 250 revelers at a rave party, have been condemned by people around the world as a terrorist outrage. In Gaza, however, they are widely seen as a breach in the Israeli-built wall that has trapped residents for 16 years and condemned them to victimhood.

тАЬThe situation is very devastating, and we couldnтАЩt take it anymore,тАЭ says local journalist Hind Khoudary, describing deteriorating living conditions in Gaza. тАЬIt may not be aligned with international law, but, for the first time, Palestinians here in Gaza do not feel helpless.тАЭ"

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2023/1010/In-Gaza-a-different-view-of-the-Hamas-raid-on-Israel

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